Asdine Hrychy
Staff Research Engineer at Weaviate
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolAsdine Hrychy is a Staff Research Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable backend systems and developer-facing tooling across open-source and SaaS environments. Currently at Weaviate, he focuses on research-driven engineering for vector search infrastructure, having optimized HNSW indexing performance, memory management, and concurrency under real-world loads. Previously he scaled core services at Sourcegraph and led developer experience and data governance initiatives at Heetch, demonstrating a blend of hands-on coding and cross-team leadership. An active open-source contributor, he has deep experience with embedded and distributed databases (BoltDB, Badger, Weaviate) and improving storage and indexing primitives. Based in Dubai, he pairs pragmatic engineering with applied research, often surfacing subtle concurrency and memory issues that unlock measurable performance gains. Colleagues know him for shipping robust low-level fixes and benchmarks that quietly enable larger product features.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Epitech
French, English
Stackoverflow
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31answers
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go
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Github Skills (30)
debug10
apidoc10
boltdb10
indexing10
wpgraphql10
go10
api10
performance-optimization10
database-design10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
concurrency10
testing9
transaction9
configuration-management9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chaisql/chai
Jun 2018 - Aug 2022
Modern embedded SQL database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 releases, 280 reviews, 1700 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Asdine contributed significantly to the development of the badgerengine module, which involved integrating and utilizing the "badgerengine" and "badger/v3" storage backends within the "genji" database. Their work focused on modifying the go.mod file to include badgerengine, adding the badgerengine module, and using it as the storage engine. The commits also included the removal of a bytesutil package.
golangembedded-databasesql-databasesqlgo
asdine/storm
Jan 2016 - May 2021
Simple and powerful toolkit for BoltDB
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 releases, 1 review, 333 commits in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Asdine focused on implementing core database functionalities for the BoltDB-based toolkit. Their contributions involved adding a simple `save` method with struct tag integration, along with unique index support and list index support. They also worked on creating a method to get records by index, and finally, they refactored the code to implement transaction and remove support.
databaseboltdbindexesquery-enginestorm
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