Brian Underwood
Elixir Developer at Erlang Solutions
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolBrian Underwood is an Elixir developer with 15 years of backend engineering experience, currently building resilient systems at Erlang Solutions in Stockholm. He specializes in data-intensive services across Elixir, Ruby and Node.js and brings deep database expertise spanning PostgreSQL, Neo4j, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch and TimescaleDB. A committed open-source maintainer and contributor (co-maintainer of Neo4j.rb and notable fixes to the widely used acts_as_paranoid plugin), he focuses on correctness, recoverability and performance—his patches addressed DB-specific edge cases and added recursive association recovery. At Fishbrain he helped drive GraphQL adoption to 28% of requests and has hands-on experience optimizing and deploying recommendation and decision-tree models. He combines pragmatic engineering with a clear passion for Elixir and creating net-positive software.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science Engineering at The Ohio State University
English, Swedish, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (32)
algorithms10
python10
testing10
machine-learning10
rails10
ruby10
neo4j10
performance-optimization10
activerecord10
decision-tree10
ruby-on-rails10
postgresql9
ruby-on-rails-79
documentations9
cypher9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
neo4jrb/activegraph
May 2014 - Aug 2018
An active model wrapper for the Neo4j Graph Database for Ruby.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1849 commits, 197 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Brian's commits primarily focused on fixing specifications related to active graph functionality within the activegraph library. These fixes involved changes to the association specification and the spec helper, indicating a focus on enhancing the reliability and correctness of the library's features. There were also documentation fixes, demonstrating a commitment to improving the readability and usability of the codebase. Furthermore, the user addressed several documentation issues including changes to API and general documentation.
neo4j-graphrubyneo4j-graph-databasedatabaserailtie
neo4j-documentation/developer-resources
Sep 2014 - Jan 2017
this repository is outdated and will be archived
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:76 commits, 7 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on implementing and improving routes and functionalities within a Ruby on Rails application related to a Neo4j database. They added search and movie detail routes, fixed a bug related to the "roles" key, and updated models. Furthermore, the user updated the project to work with Neo4j 2.2 and cleaned up the code, demonstrating a focus on API design and database interaction.
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