Dominic Frei
Owner, Director, Manager at DF IT Services FZE LLC
New Taipei, Taiwan
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Top SchoolDominic Frei is a software engineer and founder with 11 years of cross-platform experience, now running DF IT Services where he combines engineering and developer relations as a service. He began coding on an Intel 80286 and has since shipped work across iOS, C++, .NET, Python and AWS, with deep hands-on contributions to the Realm mobile database (core, Swift and .NET) improving migrations, file management and test coverage. At MongoDB he bridged engineering and DevRel—building demos, workshops, talks and integrations with AWS to help developers adopt cloud and mobile data tooling. As a former agency CEO and early startup engineer, he brings product leadership, hiring and client-facing delivery experience alongside low-level systems expertise. He regularly creates tutorials, videos and talks, blending practical engineering with education to accelerate developer productivity. Based in New Taipei, he pairs a gamer’s lifelong curiosity with pragmatic system-level problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
German, English
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Github Skills (42)
c-language10
ios10
testing10
synchronized10
net10
databases10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
data-synchronization10
migration10
portable-database10
asp-net10
data-sync10
realm10
mobile-web10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
realm/realm-dotnet
May 2021 - May 2022
Realm is a mobile database: a replacement for SQLite & ORMs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:151 reviews, 12 commits, 19 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Dominic primarily focused on improving the Realm .NET database library, implementing core functionalities such as deleting Realm files and managing the synchronization process. Their contributions involved modifying the core logic for handling object creation and querying using TableKey and ObjKey. The commits show the user's work in enhancing data manipulation processes and adding features related to conversion and synchronization behavior in the library. They also developed supporting features like WriteCopy and integrated testing procedures.
realtimedotnetormssyncreact-native
realm/realm-core
Feb 2021 - Apr 2022
Core database component for the Realm Mobile Database SDKs
Role in this project:Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:90 reviews, 32 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Dominic primarily focuses on database migration-related tasks within the `realm-core` repository. Their contributions involve fixing backlink checks during schema migrations, modifying embeddedness tests, and enhancing the functionality of the database. They implement methods to add and delete files, demonstrating an understanding of database file management. These modifications are essential for the proper functioning and evolution of the Realm database.
cpprealm-mobile-databasenosql-databasemobile-databasec-plus-plus
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