Evgenij Thorstensen
Lead Software Developer at Planixs
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolEvgenij Thorstensen is a Lead Software Developer with 16 years of experience combining academic rigour and practical engineering to build reliable backend systems and optimise databases. With a PhD from Oxford and a research background as an associate professor at the University of Oslo, he specializes in database theory, data integration and logic-based methods that inform robust query and schema design in production. At Planixs he moved from full‑stack development to leading engineering for intraday liquidity software, bringing deep SQL, Python and Lisp expertise to bridge complex data models and application layers. Comfortable with frontend basics, he uniquely translates formal algorithmic and complexity insights into pragmatic performance wins and maintainable systems. Based in Manchester, he pairs scholarly attention to correctness with a hands-on mindset for shipping business-critical software.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of OsloDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Oxford
Norwegian, Russian, English
Github Skills (12)
sql6
database6
analytics5
sql-database5
postgresql5
postgresql-extension5
ingest5
time-series5
iot5
timescaledb4
financial-analysis3
timeseries-database2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
evgenith/TeXT
Jan 2010 - Mar 2012
Contributions:20 commits in 2 years 2 months
evgenith/wsp-task
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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