Neil Macneale IV
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarNeil Macneale is a seasoned software engineer with 23 years in the industry—18 as an engineer and 5 as a manager—currently at DoltHub contributing to Dolt, the open-source "Git for Data." He specializes in developer productivity tooling and operationalizing large distributed systems across both legacy and greenfield environments. Neil has held senior engineering and leadership roles at AWS, Oracle, Google, Amazon and Fauna, building teams that deliver high operational availability. He brings a craftsman’s instinct to software—drawing on lessons from his carpenter father to design bespoke tools that range from long-lived platform components to one-off automation scripts. Recent hands-on open-source work enhanced Dolt’s hashing and diff behavior, underscoring his blend of backend/database engineering and practical automation to solve problems that matter.
3 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
version-control10
go10
sql10
testing9
database-design9
git9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dolthub/dolt
Feb 2023 - Apr 2025
Dolt – Git for Data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:407 reviews, 345 PRs, 617 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Neil's contributions primarily involved extending the functionality of the Dolt database, specifically related to the `dolt_hashof()` procedure and its interactions with commit IDs. They added support for full-length commit IDs within the `hashof()` procedure and implemented unit tests to verify the correct behavior of the `hashof()` function. Further, the user worked on enhancing the diff capabilities of the system by including all diff columns when tables were created or dropped and updated existing tests to account for broken behavior.
git-sqlversion-controlled-databasegit-databasedatabase-version-controldatabase
dolthub/gozstd
Jun 2024 - Jun 2024
go wrapper for zstd
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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