Jan Lindström
Galera Engineer at MariaDB
Liperi, North Karelia, Finland
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Top SchoolJan Lindström is a seasoned database kernel engineer and technical leader with 11+ years of experience building and managing core database systems, currently working as a Galera Engineer at MariaDB. His career spans research and product roles at MariaDB, Codership, IBM and Innobase, with deep expertise in consistency models, storage structures and synchronous replication for high-availability clusters. Known for hands-on C/C++ development in InnoDB and Galera, he has improved real-world usability by enhancing error messaging and constraint handling in the MariaDB server. Jan combines academic rigor (PhD-level computer science research on concurrency) with pragmatic release management and team leadership, and is open to fully remote full-time opportunities. Based in Liperi, Finland, he brings rare cross-cutting experience from prototyping real-time databases to shipping production-grade clustering solutions.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
HeliaPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Helsinki
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database-design10
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MariaDB/server
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
MariaDB server is a community developed fork of MySQL server. Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:66 reviews, 1350 commits, 505 PRs in 8 years
Contributions summary:Jan's contributions focused on improving the error messaging related to duplicate key and foreign key names by adding more informative error messages and details of foreign key constraints. The changes involved modifications to the InnoDB storage engine code, specifically within the `dict0crea.c` and `xtradb/dict0crea.c` files, which handle the construction and definition of foreign key constraints. The user's work aimed to enhance the clarity and usability of the error messages provided by the database system.
licensedsql-servermysqlsqlmariadb-server
MariaDB/mergetrees
Nov 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
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