Christian Weilbach
Computer Scientist at lambdaforge
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolChristian Weilbach is a computer scientist with 11 years of experience focused on distributed systems, databases, and AI, currently based in Vancouver. He served as Chief Research Officer at lambdaforge and earlier worked as a deep learning engineer, blending hands-on engineering with research-led product development. An active open-source back-end contributor, he has made performance and API improvements to the immutable, distributed Datalog engine Datahike, adding transaction and schema support. Holding advanced degrees from Universität Heidelberg and pursuing a PhD at UBC, he combines rigorous theoretical interests in critical theory and mathematics with practical system-building to improve social processes. Notably, he bridges low-level database optimizations and higher-level AI/distributed-system design, making him effective at turning research insights into production-ready components.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaMaster of Science - MS, Computer and Information Sciences, General, 1,3 (sehr gut), Master of Science - MS, Computer and Information Sciences, General, 1,3 (sehr gut) at Universität Heidelberg
Github Skills (9)
clojure10
datalog10
database-design10
clojure-cli10
apidoc9
data-structure9
api9
data-structures9
open-source8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
replikativ/datahike
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
A fast, immutable, distributed & compositional Datalog engine for everyone.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 226 reviews, 114 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Christian primarily contributed to the `datahike` project by implementing and improving core database functionalities. Their commits focused on optimizing performance through faster vector comparisons and fixing scanning issues. Furthermore, they added support for a transaction API and implemented various database API functions. The user also worked on adding schema support and related database operations.
datahikedata-managementdurabledatabaseclojure
replikativ/konserve-carmine
Jan 2017 - Mar 2020
A redis backend with carmine for konserve.
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 2 months
redisredis-backendredis-searchkonservebackend
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