Knut Løite
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Hengelo, Overijssel, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolKnut Løite is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience specializing in databases and cloud integrations, currently working on Google Cloud Spanner client libraries, JDBC drivers and related tooling at Google. He is proficient in Java, SQL and Go, and has a strong track record contributing Spanner-focused features and reliable tests across multiple Google Cloud client libraries and language samples for .NET, Go and Java. His background spans hands-on engineering and engineering management—having led development, operations and security programs at Topicus—so he blends system design, product thinking and operational rigor. Knut has contributed notable open-source work such as adding a Cloud Spanner JDBC driver to DBeaver and implementing Point-in-Time Recovery, CMEK and transaction/tagging support in Google Cloud samples and libraries. Based in Hengelo, Netherlands, he pairs an MSc in Technical Informatics from TU Delft with practical experience shipping production-ready database integrations at scale.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Technical Informatics, MSc, Technical Informatics at Delft University of Technology
Dutch, English, Norwegian, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (51)
kotlin10
client-library10
testing10
net10
databases10
sample-size10
dotnet10
database-administration10
jdbc10
java10
spanner10
gcp10
sample-rate10
google-cloud-spanner10
asp-net10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
googleapis/google-cloud-go
Apr 2019 - Feb 2022
Google Cloud Client Libraries for Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:361 reviews, 135 commits, 90 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Knut's commits primarily focus on improving the Google Cloud Client Libraries for Go, specifically within the Spanner and Firestore services. Their work involved enhancing error handling, such as making the errors convertible to gRPC status. The user also addressed flakiness and race conditions in existing tests, ensuring more reliable and robust testing. Furthermore, the user has added support for request and transaction tags to be included with the RPCs.
golanggocloud-storageclient-librariescloud-datastore
GoogleCloudPlatform/dotnet-docs-samples
Feb 2021 - Aug 2021
.NET code samples used on https://cloud.google.com
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:39 reviews, 10 commits, 11 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Knut primarily contributed to the .NET code samples within the Google Cloud Platform repository. Their work centered on implementing and enhancing samples related to Cloud Spanner, including database creation, version retention, backup management, and data encryption. The user's contributions involved modifying database schemas, adding functionality for logging commit statistics, and integrating features for point-in-time recovery. They also added samples related to JSON data types and tagging within Spanner transactions.
dotnetc-sharpcsharpgoogle-clouddotnet-core
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