Jan Nidzwetzki
Software Engineer at PlanetScale
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolJan Nidzwetzki is a founding engineer and database/distributed-systems expert based in Hamburg with a PhD in computer science and over a decade of hands-on industry experience. He has driven core database internals at TimescaleDB—focusing on query planning, vectorization, compression and partitioning—and earlier built distributed systems like DSECONDO and BBoxDB during his doctoral research. As former CTO of an AI question-answering startup and longtime systems engineer, he blends product-minded leadership with deep low-level engineering in C/C++, Linux, and storage engines. Now at Nile he continues to apply that mix of research-grade systems design and practical production engineering to tackle large-scale data challenges. A not-obvious thread through his career is repeatedly turning academic prototypes into production-ready distributed stores and tools.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat. / Doctor (PhD), Computer Science, Dr. rer. nat. / Doctor (PhD), Computer Science at FernUniversität in HagenStaatlich geprüfter Informatiker, Computer engineering (Technische Informatik), Staatlich geprüfter Informatiker, Computer engineering (Technische Informatik) at DAA-TechnikumFachinformatiker, Systemintegration, Fachinformatiker, Systemintegration at TNG - THE NET GENERATION AGFachinformatiker, Systemintegration, Fachinformatiker, Systemintegration at NMMN - New Media Markets & Networks Internet Services GmbH
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (103)
data-stream10
timeseries-database10
postgresql10
trading10
high-availability10
authentication10
websocket10
trading-bot10
trading-systems10
cryptocurrency10
automation10
mysql-replication10
leader-election10
docker-container10
postgresql-extension10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jnidzwetzki/jnidzwetzki.github.io
Dec 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:116 commits, 155 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
jnidzwetzki/jnidzwetzki
Nov 2020 - Feb 2026
Contributions:60 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
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