Niclas Antti
Principal Software Engineer at MariaDB Plc
Helsinki, Mainland Finland
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Top SchoolNiclas Antti is a Principal Software Engineer based in Helsinki with a long track record of designing and delivering robust software across Linux, Windows and embedded environments. He brings deep C++ and object-oriented expertise alongside a polyglot background (C, Java, Python, Ada, DSPs and more) used to build libraries, frameworks and simulation/financial systems. At MariaDB he contributes to MaxScale, improving proxy stability and implementing throttling and timing improvements for high‑availability database deployments. His career spans senior and principal engineering roles at major gaming and finance firms since the 1990s, combining hands‑on coding with team leadership and architecture responsibilities. Niclas’s signal‑processing master’s background informs a pragmatic, systems‑level approach to performance and embedded constraints. Colleagues rely on him for steady delivery, pragmatic design tradeoffs and deep maintenance expertise in complex, long‑lived codebases.
8 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer technology/Signal processing and computer peripherals, 4/5, Master's degree, Computer technology/Signal processing and computer peripherals, 4/5 at Helsinki University of Technology
Swedish, Finnish, English
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Github Skills (7)
configuration-management10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
testing9
performance-optimization9
debugging8
mariadb8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
mariadb-corporation/MaxScale
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
An intelligent database proxy.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 524 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Niclas's commits primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and stability of the MaxScale database proxy. The contributions included adding support for new global configuration entries, switching from usleep to maxscale::Worker::delayed_call() for timing-related aspects, and deprecating existing database firewall rules in favor of the new throttle filter. Furthermore, the commits demonstrated improvements to the system by including a test for the throttling filter, including connection handling.
databaseproxy
nantti/spirit-test
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 day
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