Dimitris Staratzis
Senior Software Engineer at Nirvana Labs
Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolDimitris Staratzis is a Senior Software Engineer based in Oregon with 8 years of experience building high-performance backend systems and database integrations. He has deep expertise in storage engines and query performance, contributing to TileDB’s C++ core and implementing algorithms and pushdowns that doubled aggregate query speed and reduced metadata memory use. A strong polyglot engineer, he moved complex CI to GitHub Actions, maintained connectors for Trino and Spark, and authored cloud clients and JDBC/Python drivers that bridge native TileDB functionality to mainstream ecosystems. He also has research experience in LSM-tree compaction and RocksDB delete optimizations from his work at Boston University, bringing an academic rigor to production problems. Currently leading backend design and Go implementations at Nirvana Labs, he combines low-level systems thinking with practical product-focused engineering. Outside core engineering, he has a track record of shipping end-to-end products—from Android apps to large-scale event operations—demonstrating both technical breadth and operational impact.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Athens University of Economics and BusinessMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Boston University
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Github Skills (59)
data-analysis10
prediction-model10
storage-engine10
data-science10
dataframes10
storage10
partitioning10
gwas10
sparse-data10
scientific-computing10
database10
database-connector9
hdfs9
faunadb9
bioinformatics9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
TileDB-Inc/TileDB-Spark
Mar 2021 - Feb 2023
Spark interface to the TileDB storage manager [please see README]
Contributions:70 reviews, 92 commits, 90 PRs in 1 year 10 months
storage-managertiledbstoragespark
TileDB-Inc/TileDB-Presto
May 2021 - Jan 2023
TileDB Connector for PrestoDB
Contributions:1 review, 20 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 8 months
prestodbconnectortiledbnodejsdatabase
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