Grisha Kotlyar
Software Developer at RavenDB
Israel
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Top SchoolGrisha Kotlyar is a software developer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and optimizing back-end systems, currently contributing to RavenDB, a well-known ACID document database. Since joining RavenDB in 2014 he has focused on improving database functionality and performance—work that spans memory management in query pipelines, index handling fixes, and resolving tricky race conditions in distributed features. His background includes systems administration at Technion and an early internship at Logic Studio, giving him a practical appreciation for operational reliability and production constraints. Based in Israel, he holds a BSc in Information Systems from Technion and brings both engineering depth and long-term product familiarity to database internals. Notably, his open-source contributions to the high-profile ravendb repo reflect a propensity for tackling subtle concurrency and performance issues rather than only feature work.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Information Systems at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (14)
document-database10
csharp10
indexing10
database-design10
concurrency10
dotnet-core10
multithreading9
nosql9
memory-management9
unit-testing6
ravendb6
mapreduce6
asp-net-core6
migration6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ravendb/ravendb
Mar 2014 - Jan 2023
ACID Document Database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1206 reviews, 3322 commits, 1187 PRs in 8 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Grisha primarily worked on back-end aspects of the RavenDB project, focusing on improving the database's functionality and performance. Their contributions included adding features to information logs, enhancing memory management within the query execution pipeline, and fixing a race condition related to handling nested compare exchange references. They addressed multiple issues related to index handling.
nosqlravendbnosql-data-storagenosql-databasesc-sharp
grisha-kotler/ravendb
Jan 2015 - Mar 2025
A linq enabled document database for .NET
Contributions:1 PR, 1635 pushes, 1403 branches in 10 years 4 months
dotnetcsharpdatabaselinqdotnet-core
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