Aurélien Arena
Senior Software Engineer at Tripadvisor
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAurélien Arena is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years’ experience designing, building and operating low-latency, highly available distributed systems and database internals. He has driven core backend work on Neo4j’s native graph database—contributing to replication, backup and RAFT-based data-plane features used by hundreds of thousands of users—and now focuses on search infrastructure at Tripadvisor. His background spans research-grade semantic web and NLP from a PhD to hands-on engineering of full-stack data tools at a startup later acquired by Elsevier, giving him rare fluency across theory and production. Known for tackling complex, large codebases, he combines deep systems knowledge with pragmatic operational instincts for fault-tolerant data platforms.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer science applied to social sciences, PhD Computer science applied to social sciences at Université Paris-SorbonneEngineer Computer Science, Engineer Computer Science at SUPINFOMSC Computer Science, MSC Computer Science at Oxford Brookes University
French, English, grec
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
transaction10
databases10
graph-database10
java10
neo4j10
javas10
database10
nosql9
command-line-interface9
graphdb8
cypher8
eclipse6
logging6
playframework6
eclipse-cdt6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
neo4j/neo4j
Jan 2021 - Sep 2022
Graphs for Everyone
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Aurélien contributed to the Neo4j graph database project by implementing and fixing core backend functionalities. Their commits focused on improving the read replica, unbinding commands, and backup processes. They also added and modified database commands such as the aggregate command, as well as fixed issues related to backup procedures and transaction log file handling, suggesting a deep understanding of the database internals.
neo4j-databasedirected-acyclic-graphnosqlgraphsdatabase
au-arena/temp
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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