Micha De Vries
Software Engineer at SurrealDB
Anna Paulowna, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMicha De Vries is a software engineer with eight years of experience focused on core engine development for SurrealDB, where he contributes to the back-end, SDKs, and product-facing content. He brings a full-stack background from fintech at Flow Your Money and runs open-source projects through The Open Source Company, shipping user-focused platforms like Kards Social and Playrbase. Deep in Rust and TypeScript, he’s solved tricky consistency and record-ID issues in a distributed document-graph database and builds tooling for time, string, and object manipulation. Comfortable leading small teams and translating complex systems into understandable concepts (a skill honed while teaching), he also freelanced across server, DevOps, and web projects. Based in Anna Paulowna, he balances pragmatic engineering with a playful curiosity—his GitHub humorously bills SEO as “Sarcasm Engine Optimization.”
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
HAVO, Information Technology, HAVO, Information Technology at OSG West-Friesland
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Github Skills (14)
api10
rust10
back-end-development10
database-design10
apidoc10
database9
sql9
databases9
text-manipulation8
performance-optimization8
distributed-database7
version-control7
git7
document-database6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
surrealdb/surrealdb
Sep 2022 - Apr 2026
A scalable, distributed, collaborative, document-graph database, for the realtime web
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:739 reviews, 298 PRs, 842 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Micha primarily contributed to the back-end development of the SurrealDB database. Their work involved implementing features like record deletion on `DROP` tables, adding headers for client IP information, refactoring code for function handling, and improving the record ID handling. Furthermore, they worked on core functionalities, including the development of several functions for object manipulation and utility functionalities for time and string manipulation. They also addressed critical issues such as consistency in query results and fixed issues related to internal processes during database operations, enhancing overall database behavior.
graph-databasedatabasedistributeddistributed-databasedocument-database
leafal-io/desktop
Dec 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 11 months
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