Henning Baldersheim
Software Engineer at vespa-engine
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
Summary
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RockstarHenning Baldersheim is a software engineer based in Trondheim, Norway, with a decade of professional experience and over 20 years of practical development involvement reflected through long-term contributions at Yahoo and the Vespa project. He focuses on back-end systems, performance, and memory-efficient data structures, having driven refactors and feature work in Vespa’s query processing, partitioning, B-trees and tensor handling. Known for improving testability and robustness, Henning blends pragmatic engineering with attention to low-level detail that boosts real-world system reliability. His contributions to the prominent open-source vespa-engine/vespa underline a commitment to production-grade AI + data platforms serving online workloads. Colleagues would describe him as a passionate, efficiency-oriented developer who prefers solving hard infrastructure problems over flashy surface-level features.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
data-structures10
javas10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
data-structure10
java10
memory-management9
query-optimization9
tensor8
tensorrt8
operation8
tensorflow8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vespa-engine/vespa
Jun 2016 - Jan 2023
AI + Data, online. https://vespa.ai
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4477 reviews, 12196 commits, 10294 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Henning's commits focus on implementing features within the Vespa engine, primarily related to query processing. Their work included rewriting and refactoring of partitioning and memory management code, and handling data structures such as B-trees and Tensor handling. The user also made changes to enhance testability and robustness with the addition of test cases and more detailed exception handling.
vespacppservingpythondata-science
vespa-engine/vespa-3rdparty-deps
May 2019 - Aug 2024
Vespa 3rd-party dependencies
Contributions:71 reviews, 142 PRs, 157 pushes in 5 years 4 months
dependenciesvespaparty3rd-party
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