Summary
Lukas Landgraf is a software engineer and former database researcher with a decade of experience building and optimizing query processing engines, including work on SAP HANA Core and as a PhD candidate at SAP. He combines deep systems design skills—row-store kernel work, device driver development, and database engine development—with practical startup experience as a founder and current engineer at a stealth startup in Seoul. His interests focus on data-intensive use cases enabled by modern lakehouse architectures, and he brings foundational knowledge of LLM architectures and training to bridge databases and ML workflows. Lukas’s background spans academia and industry across Germany and South Korea, giving him a rare perspective on production-grade database internals and emerging data platform patterns. Notably, he has transitioned research prototypes into startup initiatives, signaling an aptitude for turning low-level systems expertise into product-driven solutions.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Pohang University of Science and Technology
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Technische Universität Dresden
English, Korean, German