Anton Persson
Senior Software Engineer at Elastic
Malmo, Sweden
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Top SchoolAnton Persson is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience who blends deep backend and database engineering expertise with a unique focus on wellbeing and team resilience. He spent years contributing to Neo4j's core graph database—improving indexing, constraints and data-layer stability—before moving into senior roles including Elastic. As founder of Stilla and an experienced mindfulness instructor and coach, Anton helps tech teams reduce burnout and cultivate presence to improve focus, communication and leadership. His background in technical mathematics and software engineering underpins a pragmatic approach to solving edge-case, performance-sensitive problems. Based in Malmö, Sweden, he pairs hands-on systems work with facilitation skills that make engineering teams more creative and sustainable. An unusual combination of low-level database craftsmanship and organizational coaching makes him effective at both shipping reliable systems and nurturing the human side that sustains them.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
2016 Civilingenjör i Teknisk matematik med master i programvara, 2016 Civilingenjör i Teknisk matematik med master i programvara at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund UniversityWebb- och informationsdesign, Webb- och informationsdesign at Malmö UniversityMusikteater Sång ensemblesång skådespelarträning interpretation, Musikteater Sång ensemblesång skådespelarträning interpretation at Östra Grevie Folkhögskola
Swedish, English, French
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Github Skills (17)
indexing10
graph-database10
java10
javas10
database-design10
data-structure9
data-structures9
apidoc8
api8
performance-optimization8
testing8
shortest-path6
neo4j6
rest6
python6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
neo4j/neo4j
Apr 2015 - Nov 2022
Graphs for Everyone
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:2270 commits, 371 PRs, 328 pushes in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Anton made several changes to the `neo4j/neo4j` repository. Their contributions focused on enhancing the functionality and stability of the indexing and constraint features. The commits involved significant code modifications to handle edge cases, improve performance, and provide additional features, all in the context of a graph database implementation. They contributed to the data layer, making direct changes to how data is stored and accessed in the database.
neo4j-databasedirected-acyclic-graphnosqlgraphsdatabase
burqen/neo4j
Apr 2015 - Jun 2018
Graphs for Everyone
Contributions:473 pushes, 462 branches, 3 comments in 3 years 1 month
neo4j-databasegraphsgraphneo4jgraphql
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