Matthijs Van Otterdijk
CTO at Scidonia
Schiedam, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMatthijs Van Otterdijk is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 26 years of software engineering experience, now based in Schiedam, Netherlands. He brings deep expertise in database internals and distributed systems from seven years as a core developer on TerminusDB, where he focused on storage backends, transaction logic and schema management in Rust. Matthijs has a strong track record of turning complex data problems into robust implementations, having previously built domain-specific languages and tooling at TOPdesk and contributed system development at DSW Zorgverzekeraar. He combines hands-on engineering with product-level thinking, moving between low-level storage, query engines and occasional client work. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he often surfaces subtle storage and schema trade-offs early in projects to reduce long-term operational risk. Trained in Computer Engineering at Delft University of Technology, he blends formal foundations with decades of practical, production-facing experience.
26 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Technische Informatica, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Technische Informatica at Delft University of Technology
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (15)
data-modeling10
database-management10
transactionscope10
transaction10
prolog10
transaction-manager10
database-design9
clojure6
distributed-database6
terminusdb6
dictionary6
sharding6
scaling6
database6
java6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
terminusdb/terminusdb
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
TerminusDB is a distributed database with a collaboration model
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:17 releases, 372 reviews, 831 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Matthijs primarily worked on back-end database management and query logic within the TerminusDB project. Their commits focused on implementing features related to transactions, database creation, and schema management. The user also addressed bugs and implemented improvements to the core functionality of the database system.
distributednosqllinked-datarevision-controlsql
terminusdb/terminusdb-store
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
a tokio-enabled data store for triple data
Contributions:14 reviews, 541 commits, 95 PRs in 3 years 6 months
tripledata-storedatabase
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