Malte Sandstede
Director Of Engineering, Engine at RelationalAI
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMalte Sandstede is a systems engineer and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building databases and distributed systems, currently serving as Director of Engineering, Engine at RelationalAI in Zurich. He progressed through technical and leadership roles at RelationalAI—from computer scientist to system group lead—bringing deep hands-on experience in engine design and large-scale system architecture. His background includes research-driven work at Oracle Labs on graph visualization and a history of entrepreneurship as a technical co-founder, reflecting a blend of applied research and product-focused engineering. Academically accomplished with top honors from TUM and ETH Zürich, he couples rigorous systems research with practical delivery. Known for turning complex storage and computation problems into production-ready solutions, he retains a developer-first mindset while scaling teams and engineering practices.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science with Honors, Computer Software Engineering, 1.0, Master of Science with Honors, Computer Software Engineering, 1.0 at Technical University MunichExchange Semester, A+, Exchange Semester, A+ at HEC MontréalBachelor of Science - BS, Business Information Technology, Top 10%, Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Information Technology, Top 10% at Frankfurt School of Finance & ManagementMaster of Science - MS, Systems Group: Research & Master's Thesis, 1.0, Master of Science - MS, Systems Group: Research & Master's Thesis, 1.0 at ETH ZürichFachinformatiker für Anwendungsentwicklung (IHK) / IT specialist for application development, Fachinformatiker für Anwendungsentwicklung (IHK) / IT specialist for application development at Deutsche Bank AG / Chamber of Industry & Commerce
German, English, French
Github Skills (97)
programming-language10
julialang10
root-finding10
science10
julia10
numerical10
machine-learning10
hpc10
petsc10
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babashka9
normal9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
li1/snailtrail
Apr 2019 - Feb 2020
SnailTrail 2 (ST2)
Contributions:279 commits, 3 PRs, 138 pushes in 10 months
st2
li1/chicago
Feb 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
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