Gerrit Meier
Staff Software Engineer at Neo4j
Brunswick, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolGerrit Meier is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in back-end systems, data import pipelines, and graph databases, currently based in Brunswick, Germany. At Neo4j he has driven features across the core database and ecosystem—adding Parquet import support, enhancing OGM mapping, and improving Neo4j driver auto-configuration and health indicators in Spring Boot. His work spans production-grade integrations (Spring projects, Testcontainers) and advanced vector/indexing features for Neo4j in the Spring AI stack, demonstrating deep domain expertise in graph data and developer tooling. Gerrit combines hands-on Java engineering with careful testing and dependency management, often touching multi-threading, type handling, and migration of APIs. An active open-source contributor, he regularly adds both utility and robustness to widely-used projects in the Neo4j and Spring ecosystems. Colleagues would note his steady progression from consultant and architect roles into a technical leadership position focused on scalable data ingestion and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
Diplom-Informatiker, Informatik, Diplom-Informatiker, Informatik at Technische Universität Braunschweig
German, English
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Github Skills (46)
application-framework10
docker10
spring10
testing10
app-framework10
databases10
spring-data10
vector-database10
data-export10
graph-database10
dockers10
java10
data-import10
neo4j10
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
neo4j/neo4j-ogm
Sep 2017 - Jan 2023
Java Object-Graph Mapping Library for Neo4j
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 releases, 9 reviews, 284 commits in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Gerrit primarily contributed to the Java Object-Graph Mapping Library for Neo4j. Their work focused on implementing features such as a filter function for in-collection queries. The user added support for lenient conversion and contributed to a rewrite to use Java's Base64 support. The user's contributions involved modifying and adding Java code, particularly within the core functionality of the OGM library and associated test cases.
object-graphogmgraph-databasesnosql-databasesneo4j-ogm
spring-projects/spring-data-neo4j
Sep 2017 - Jan 2023
Provide support to increase developer productivity in Java when using Neo4j. Uses familiar Spring concepts such as a template classes for core API usage and lightweight repository style data access.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:44 reviews, 689 commits, 154 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Gerrit primarily worked on the implementation of the between operator, including creating the necessary builders and tests for it. They also contributed to the creation of a test case to avoid a regression. Additional commits include supporting named queries from properties files and extending support for the contains keyword. The user also handled adaptations due to OGM package refactoring.
spring-bootspring-dataapidddproductivity
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