Philipp Fent
Co-Founder at CedarDB
Freising, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilipp Fent is a database engineer, researcher, and tech lead with 11 years of experience, currently co-founding CedarDB to commercialize high-performance data processing innovations. He holds a PhD in Database Systems from Technische Universität München and spent six years driving research and implementation of query optimization and code generation techniques at TUM. Philipp blends academic rigor with hands-on system-building, focusing on efficient execution strategies that reduce query latency and resource usage. As a founder-engineer he steers both architecture and low-level implementation, translating research prototypes into production-ready database components. Based in Freising, Bavaria, he brings a pragmatic approach to complex problems and a track record of turning deep research insights into usable engineering outcomes. An under-the-radar strength is his emphasis on code generation for query pipelines, a niche that lets CedarDB punch above its weight in performance.
11 years of coding experience
PhD, Database Systems, PhD, Database Systems at Technische Universität München
Github Skills (68)
rdma10
code-generation10
tca10
dancer10
android10
kotlin10
low-latency10
assembler10
shared-memory10
asmjit10
download-manager9
x86-649
cloud-object-storage9
cpp9
machine-code9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pfent/libibverbscpp
Jan 2018 - Mar 2021
C++ bindings for libibverbs
Contributions:59 commits, 4 PRs, 39 pushes in 3 years 2 months
cpp
pfent/FMIBistroParser
Jul 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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