Gábor Szárnyas
Head Of Developer Relations
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolGábor Szárnyas is a Senior Developer Relations Advocate with 14 years of experience bridging research-grade database engineering and developer communities, currently driving adoption and documentation for DuckDB at DuckLabs. He combines hands-on backend contributions to the core DuckDB engine and neo4j-apoc CSV tooling with technical writing for duckdb.org, improving both functionality and discoverability of the project. At DuckLabs he launched conferences, podcasts, and community programs that helped grow site traffic to 100k daily uniques and GitHub stars from 10k to nearly 40k in three years. Previously a post-doc at CWI, he led benchmark and graph-data efforts—including award-winning VLDB work—and helped scale the Graph Data Council’s audited benchmark program. Based in Amsterdam, he pairs academic rigor with practical product impact, often translating complex benchmarking and SQL internals into accessible docs and talks for developers.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Engineering, Graduated with highest honours., Master's Degree, Computer Engineering, Graduated with highest honours. at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
English, Hungarian
Stackoverflow
4,822reputation
151kreached
187answers
14questions
neo4j
top-5%
cypher
top-5%
Github Skills (24)
stored-procedures10
c-language10
databases10
graph-database10
java10
neo4j10
javas10
junit10
sql10
csv10
embedded-database10
cprogramming-language10
unit-test10
documentation10
database10
Programming languages (33)
Github contributions (5)
duckdb/duckdb-web
Oct 2020 - Sep 2022
DuckDB website and documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:177 reviews, 94 commits, 4886 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Gábor primarily contributed to the website and documentation of the DuckDB project. Their commits focused on adding and updating railroad diagrams to visualize SQL syntax, documenting specific SQL clauses like UNNEST, CREATE STATEMENT, and USING, and improving the user interface by adding clickable headers and updated links. This indicates a focus on enhancing the clarity and usability of the documentation for end-users.
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neo4j-contrib/neo4j-apoc-procedures
Oct 2016 - Feb 2022
Awesome Procedures On Cypher for Neo4j - codenamed "apoc" If you like it, please ★ above ⇧
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 13 PRs, 50 comments in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Gábor primarily contributed to enhancing the `neo4j-apoc-procedures` repository by implementing and modifying CSV import functionality. Their work included adding the `apoc.import.csv` procedure, introducing batch transactions, and handling separator and quote characters correctly. They also addressed issues related to duplicate node handling and added new test cases to improve the robustness of the CSV import process.
neo4j-pluginneo4j-databasestored-proceduresmemgraphapoc
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