Esa Korhonen
Software Engineer at MariaDB Corporation
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolEsa Korhonen is a software engineer based in Helsinki with nine years of professional development experience and a PhD background in physics. At MariaDB Corporation since 2016 he focuses on backend systems for database tooling and has contributed to the MaxScale proxy by improving configuration parsing, expanding unit tests, and translating database grants into executable queries. His academic work in compound semiconductors and measurement system design gave him strong experimental rigor and a knack for designing reliable software for complex systems. Esa combines research-grade attention to testability and correctness with practical production engineering, particularly in database-related infrastructure. Colleagues can expect a developer who bridges deep analytical thinking from physics with hands-on backend craftsmanship.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Engineering Physics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Engineering Physics at Aalto University
Finnish, English, Swedish, French
Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
configparser10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
sql9
database-design7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
mariadb-corporation/MaxScale
Nov 2016 - Jan 2023
An intelligent database proxy.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2335 commits, 8 PRs, 4650 pushes in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Esa's commits primarily focused on implementing and extending functionality for a database proxy. They added a function to parse configuration files into a map and extended the unit tests for the parser. These changes also involved modifying and expanding the test suite, indicating a focus on ensuring code quality and reliability. Furthermore, the user introduced code for translating database grants into a set of queries.
golangproxydatabase-proxydatabasemariadb
mariadb-corporation/maxscale-docker
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:87 commits, 13 PRs, 140 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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