Antony Butterfield
Senior Software Engineer at Neo4j
Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAntony Butterfield is a Senior Software Engineer and founder with over two decades of experience inventing and implementing enterprise middleware, best known as the architect of NetKernel and originator of Resource Oriented Computing and early microservices thinking. He combines deep systems-level engineering—from storage engines and distributed scoping to computation caches—with hands-on product and startup leadership at 1060 Research and Tsuga Audio. Currently contributing to Neo4j’s core database internals, Antony brings practical expertise in backend and database engineering alongside a strong academic foundation in Computer Systems Engineering from Warwick. His background spans Bell Labs, HP Labs and Lucent as well as solo game development in the 1980s, reflecting an unusual blend of research-grade innovation and low-level craftsmanship. Continually learning, he holds Google Professional Cloud Architect and Data Engineer certifications and pursues interests across IoT, graphics and audio software.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (12)
neo4j10
javas10
databases10
graph-database10
database-design10
nosql10
java10
database10
cypher9
ssl8
tls128
tls138
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
neo4j/neo4j
May 2021 - Nov 2022
Graphs for Everyone
Role in this project:
Backend Developer / Database Engineer
Backend Developer / Database EngineerContributions:13 commits, 3 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Antony primarily focused on enhancing the Neo4j database's internal workings, specifically concerning storage engine components and related APIs. Their commits addressed issues like store ID validation, and setting external store IDs, ensuring data integrity and proper database operation. The user also contributed to prefetch buffer improvements and database seeding functionalities. Furthermore, the user modified aspects of database dropping and SSL certificate verification.
neo4j-databasedirected-acyclic-graphnosqlgraphsdatabase
tonbut/RPiSpectrometer
Jun 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 3 months
raspberry-picameraraspberrypi-cameraraspberrypi
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