Henrik Nyman
Staff Software Engineer at Neo4j
Malmo, Skåne County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolHenrik Nyman is a Staff Software Engineer based in Malmö with 10+ years crafting high-performance systems across databases, embedded platforms, and UI frameworks. He brings deep expertise in C, C++, Scala and Java, having driven Cypher compiler and execution engine development at Neo4j and contributed significant optimizations and thread-safety improvements to the widely used Neo4j project. Previously he built UI frameworks and integrations for BlackBerry and led render-engine work and customer integrations for mobile OEMs while consulting on bespoke ERP systems. He thrives on hard technical problems, mentoring peers, and modernizing legacy features—often improving concurrency and profiling in complex codebases. An uncommon blend of low-level systems, compiler work and product-focused UI integration gives him a rare ability to connect database internals to real-world client platforms.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of British ColumbiaMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Uppsala University
Swedish, English, German, Korean
Github Skills (9)
javas10
cypher10
java10
database9
multithreading9
performance-optimization9
databases9
testing8
code-generation7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
neo4j/neo4j
Sep 2015 - Nov 2022
Graphs for Everyone
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1018 commits, 252 PRs, 138 pushes in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Henrik contributed to the Neo4j database project by implementing new features and improving the Cypher query language. Their work involved adding index seek hints for optimization purposes, which included code modifications in the community and enterprise Cypher modules, Acceptance test suite, and Cypher compiler components. Further, they removed legacy features, and provided support for concurrent execution by refactoring and implementing features like automatic closing, and enhanced profiling and thread-safety.
neo4j-databasedirected-acyclic-graphnosqlgraphsdatabase
henriknyman/neo4j
Sep 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:394 pushes, 202 branches, 1 comment in 2 years 8 months
graphgraphsgraphqlgraph-algorithms
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