David Oliver
Director Of Engineering at Neo4j
Hindon, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Oliver is a Director of Engineering with 11 years in software-focused roles and a long background in technical writing and documentation leadership, currently overseeing Docs & UX Design at Neo4j. He progressed from technical writer roles at IBM and startups to lead Neo4j’s documentation team and now run engineering for developer-facing content and experience. David combines hands-on back-end contributions to the prominent open-source Neo4j graph database with strategic product and UX stewardship, improving settings, metrics, and test robustness. Based in Hindon, England, he excels at translating complex distributed systems detail into clear guidance and tooling that helps engineers adopt graph technology. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactors, cross-team synchronization, and maintaining high documentation standards as a force-multiplier for developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Media Science, BSc, Media Science at Sheffield Hallam UniversityBishop Wordsworth's School
Github Skills (11)
neo4j10
javas10
bolt10
graph-database10
java10
cypher9
database9
database-testing9
databases9
causal8
clustering8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
neo4j/neo4j
Nov 2017 - Jun 2022
Graphs for Everyone
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 commits, 3 PRs, 1 push in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the Neo4j graph database codebase by modifying and enhancing existing functionalities. Their commits focused on improving descriptions for settings and metrics, specifically within the bolt, causal clustering, and metrics modules. They also merged updates from upstream branches to keep the project synchronized with new versions. The user further made some refactoring changes by modifying the structure and content of several test cases.
neo4j-databasedirected-acyclic-graphnosqlgraphsdatabase
davidoliverSP2/driver-documentation
Mar 2018 - Nov 2022
Driver Documentation
Contributions:14 pushes, 128 branches in 4 years 9 months
drivernette
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