Matan Shukry is an engineering manager and seasoned backend engineer with 11 years of experience spanning DB administration, big data, and architecture, currently leading engineering at Navan after senior roles at TripActions and Jive Software. He combines hands-on C++/backend work (notably recurring contributions to the popular TrinityCore MMO framework) with deep database expertise鈥攈aving contributed meaningful fixes and SQL/parser work to the multi-model OrientDB project. Comfortable operating at both strategic and implementation levels, he has a track record of shipping robust backend features, fixing complex bugs, and improving schema/transaction behaviors. Colleagues describe him as a lifelong learner and mentor who elevates teams technically while staying pragmatic about delivery. Outside work he channels focus and curiosity into jogging, gaming, and contributing to open-source systems he believes in.
Contributions:101 reviews, 86 commits, 86 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Matan primarily focused on implementing back-end logic and functionality within the TrinityCore MMO Framework. Their contributions included adding and modifying code related to character login/logout, spell effects, and quest systems. The user also addressed bugs related to the modification of character customizations and implemented features for personal gameobject effects.
OrientDB is the most versatile DBMS supporting Graph, Document, Reactive, Full-Text and Geospatial models in one Multi-Model product. OrientDB can run distributed (Multi-Master), supports SQL, ACID Transactions, Full-Text indexing and Reactive Queries.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Contributions:46 commits, 36 PRs, 127 comments in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Matan primarily contributed to the OrientDB database project, implementing and fixing features related to database functionality and SQL query parsing. Their work includes adding test cases for functions and constants, fixing default value handling in the schema, and addressing issues with merging remote-tracking branches. They also worked on the SQL commands for sequence creation and dropping, including support for default sequence types and user creation/deletion.
dbmsrdbmsindexingrelational-databasesreactive
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Matan Shukry - Engineering Manager at Jive Software