Ali Ince
Staff Software Engineer at Codart Limited
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAli Ince is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with two decades of technical experience and a nine-year track record in software and open-source contributions. He combines hands-on backend and database engineering—contributing performance and robustness improvements to the widely used Neo4j graph database and its JavaScript/Java drivers—with practical DevOps and build automation work on projects like Eclipse Temurin. Comfortable operating across systems, from transaction handling and connection pooling to build pipelines and JVM variants, he excels at making core infrastructure more reliable and efficient. A former architect for large e‑Government systems and long-time consultant, he brings both deep implementation skill and pragmatic design judgment to production-critical systems. An understated strength is his knack for improving low-level protocols and build tooling—a focus that pays off in measurable reliability gains.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering at Middle East Technical UniversityHigh School, High School at Muğla Anadolu Lisesi
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Github Skills (32)
transaction10
javascript10
scripting10
testing10
windows10
databases10
bolt10
java10
cicd10
neo4j10
jscript10
javas10
transactionscope10
script10
database-driver10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
neo4j/neo4j-javascript-driver
Sep 2017 - Oct 2019
Neo4j Bolt driver for JavaScript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:9 releases, 200 commits, 88 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Ali implemented and enhanced core functionalities of the Neo4j Bolt driver for JavaScript, which is a driver for database interactions. Their contributions included implementing logic for connection pool size management and improving the handling of empty statement text within the session and transaction run methods. They also addressed review comments, improved the testing framework, and fixed a Boltkit test, thus ensuring functionality and reliability of database access.
driverjavascriptneo4jdatabasebolt
neo4j/neo4j-java-driver
Jun 2017 - May 2019
Neo4j Bolt driver for Java
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:69 commits, 44 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Ali's commits focus on enhancing the Neo4j Java driver's functionality. Their contributions involve adding new features, such as overloads for methods using `char` parameters, and writing corresponding tests within the PackStream and Values modules. They also implemented and tested a `char... input` overload in the `Values` class and addressed issues in the TLS socket channel by modifying the wrapping behavior to improve efficiency. Furthermore, the user contributed to the project by merging branches and adding examples.
driverjavaneo4jboltdatabase
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