Tobias Lindaaker
Database System Engineer
Greater Malmö Metropolitan Area Sweden
Summary
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RockstarTobias Lindaaker is a Database System Engineer with 18 years of experience specializing in graph databases, Java back-end systems and compiler engineering. He spent over a decade shaping Neo4j’s core—working across storage, query engine, indexing and features like active-lock listing and richer query statistics—and later applied that expertise at DataStax and Pinecone before joining RelationalAI. He also brings deep compiler experience from the Jython project, where he authored the PyASM bytecode generation framework and added PEP 342 and class decorator support to improve Python-to-Java compatibility. Based in the Malmö area, he combines low-level systems craftsmanship with pragmatic production optimizations, often surfacing subtle consistency fixes that materially improve database stability and performance.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English, Swedish, German
Github Skills (16)
jython10
javas10
query-optimization10
compiler-design10
byte-code10
code-gen10
graph-database10
python10
bytecode10
database-design10
graph-databases10
indexing10
java10
web-frameworks9
performance-tuning9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
neo4j/neo4j
Jan 2011 - Mar 2018
Graphs for Everyone
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:1134 commits, 176 PRs, 157 pushes in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily contributed to the Neo4j graph database repository with code changes related to core database functionalities. Their work involved handling data consistency issues, merging code branches, and optimizing procedures. The user also implemented features like indexing used by queries, adding a new procedure to list active locks, and including more details for query statistics. These contributions focused on improving the database's stability, functionality, and performance.
neo4j-databasedirected-acyclic-graphnosqlgraphsdatabase
jython/frozen-mirror
Jul 2007 - Feb 2010
A Mirror of hg.python.org (now frozen). Please use jython/jython.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:49 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily worked on developing a bytecode generation framework, PyASM, for the Jython project. Their initial contributions focused on reading Python bytecode to drive the framework. They added support for PEP 342 features and implemented class decorators. Additionally, the user has also worked on fixes and improvements to the existing Jython core library, and on implementing a Pyc import mechanism.
jythonpythonpython3frozen
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