Holger Pirk
Associate Professor
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHolger Pirk is an Associate Professor in Data Management at Imperial College London with 14 years of experience bridging academic research and systems-level engineering. His work focuses on data warehousing, in-memory databases, and CPU-aware query processing, informed by a PhD from the University of Amsterdam and postdoctoral research at MIT. He has progressed through research and teaching roles from PhD candidate to associate professor while spending focused visiting stints at Microsoft Research, giving him a practical perspective on industry-scale problems. Known for exploiting hardware characteristics to accelerate data systems, he combines deep theoretical insight with pragmatic implementation skills. Based in London, he maintains an active research agenda that regularly influences both database architecture and performance engineering.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of AmsterdamDiplom, Computer Science, Diplom, Computer Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
German, English, French, Russian, Dutch
Github Skills (107)
sqlite10
nodejs10
test-results9
javascript9
sql9
database9
monetdb9
jsonb9
postgresql9
databases9
converter9
mustache9
mssql9
orm9
logging9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
little-big-h/BuildEnvironment
Nov 2020 - May 2023
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 45 pushes in 2 years 6 months
little-big-h/DPS-Docker-Image
Jan 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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