Mats Kindahl
Database Architect And Developer
Västerås, Sweden
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Top SchoolMats Kindahl is a database architect and developer with 14+ years of deep experience building high-availability, scalable replication and sharding systems for MySQL, Postgres (TimescaleDB), and distributed databases. He combines systems-level engineering in C/C++ and Rust with pragmatic Python tooling, and has led teams at Timescale and Google while owning architecture work at Oracle and Sun. At Supabase he designs query routing, consensus and replication for sharded databases and contributes to open-source projects like TimescaleDB where he improved testing, hypertable/chunk handling and user-facing error messages. A PhD-trained researcher in formal methods and automata theory, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor (compiler and verification expertise) and production-hardened database engineering. Based in Västerås, Sweden, he is also an experienced conference presenter and technical writer comfortable with DocBook/XML and LaTeX.
14 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Uppsala University
English, French, Swedish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
postgresql10
sql10
testing10
databases9
database9
cmake9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
manpage6
syntax6
rust6
timescaledb6
python6
regex6
mysql6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
timescale/timescaledb
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
A time-series database for high-performance real-time analytics packaged as a Postgres extension
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:3 releases, 2251 reviews, 362 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mats focused on improving the testing capabilities of the TimescaleDB project by adding checks and checks for necessary testing tools during the CMake build process. They also addressed issues in the SQL and code base related to data handling and storage, particularly with hypertable and chunk management, and improved existing code for performance and accuracy. Additionally, they worked on enhancing the error messages for a more user-friendly experience.
postgresql-extensionfinancial-analysiscomplex-queriestime-seriestsdb
mkindahl/postgres
Sep 2021 - Oct 2024
Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, please see https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch
Contributions:16 pushes, 27 branches in 3 years 1 month
patchgit-repositorypostgresql-extensionpull-requestspostgres
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