Alexander Stigsen
Chief Product Officer at Exasol
Holbæk, Region Zealand, Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Stigsen is a seasoned product and engineering leader with 12+ years of experience building mobile and edge database technologies and leading product strategy at scale. He founded Realm, scaled it as CTO, then led Mobile & Edge at MongoDB before becoming Chief Product Officer at Exasol, demonstrating a rare combination of founder grit and enterprise product stewardship. Deeply technical, Alexander has contributed to the widely used realm-js library—adding features like indexOf, in-memory realms, and linkingObjectsCount that improve data access and developer ergonomics. He blends hands-on backend development with executive decision-making, translating low-level protocol and data model improvements into product roadmaps. Based in Holbæk, Denmark, he pairs academic roots in computer science with practical startup experience going back to Nokia and his first company, Axxion Research. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic innovator who prioritizes developer experience while driving measurable business outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorComputer Science, Computer Science at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen
Github Skills (7)
portable-database10
mobile10
javascript10
realm10
mobile-development10
nosql-database9
react-native9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
realm/realm-js
Jun 2017 - May 2018
Realm is a mobile database: an alternative to SQLite & key-value stores
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexander implemented new methods for the `realm-js` library, specifically adding `indexOf` functionality to `Results` and `List` objects. They also added support for in-memory realms, enabling a new configuration option. Furthermore, the user added the `linkingObjectsCount` function to Realm objects. Their contributions focused on enhancing the core functionality of the Realm mobile database library by improving data access and management features.
databasekey-value-storemobilerealmsqlite
realm/awesome-realm
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
A curated list of awesome Realm resources, libraries, tools and applications
Contributions:35 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
realm
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