Nick Tobey
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarNick Tobey is a software engineer with 11 years of experience focused on back-end systems and database engineering, currently contributing to Dolthub from Seattle. He has worked directly on Dolt, an ambitious "Git for Data" project, improving SQL handling, implementing core commands like dolt checkout, and refining schema merge workflows. Comfortable in production database internals, Nick blends practical feature work with careful refactoring to keep complex systems maintainable. He brings a pragmatic, data-centric perspective to engineering challenges and a track record of shipping reliable tooling for versioned data management.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (16)
go10
sql10
database-design10
database-management9
version-control9
data-structure7
data-structures7
css6
android6
github-pages6
lazy-evaluation6
jekyll6
inputstream6
haskell6
gif6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dolthub/dolt
Apr 2023 - Apr 2025
Dolt – Git for Data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer and Database Engineer
Back-end Developer and Database EngineerContributions:274 reviews, 246 PRs, 798 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on enhancing and maintaining the Dolt database system by improving the handling of SQL code and integrating new features. Their work included refactoring SQL command-line options and implementing the `dolt checkout` command. Furthermore, the user contributed to data management tasks, adding features to the schema merge process.
git-sqlversion-controlled-databasegit-databasedatabase-version-controldatabase
nicktobey/nicktobey.github.io
May 2015 - May 2024
Contributions:27 pushes, 2 comments, 2 issues in 9 years 1 month
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