Rex Johnston
Software Engineer at MariaDB Corporation
Murchison, Tasman, New Zealand
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Top SchoolRex Johnston is a seasoned software engineer with over three decades of hands-on experience across systems, embedded, and web development, currently focused on database internals and optimizations at MariaDB Corporation. He brings deep C/C++ and SQL expertise alongside broad tooling knowledge—from kernel and embedded Linux to Java, PHP frameworks, and modern containerization—having built reliable, high-throughput e-commerce and satellite-imaging systems. Rex has designed and authored production systems including a CRM, fraud-evaluation engines, and raw PDF label generators, and led day-to-day operations that kept a multimillion-euro shop breach-free for two decades. He pairs low-level skills (drivers, JNI bridges, OpenGL) with high-level architecture (query optimization, FEM/CFD modelling) and practical ops experience in virtualization, networking and compliance testing. Based in rural New Zealand, he combines pragmatic engineering with a history of reviving legacy codebases and shipping robust, secure services at scale.
3 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, software modeling, Master's degree, software modeling at The University of Auckland
Github Skills (21)
innodb10
json10
mysql-server10
storage-engine10
mysql10
mariadb10
galera10
geographical-information-system10
vector-database10
amazon-web-services10
sql-server10
sql10
rdbms10
nearest-neighbor-search10
relational-databases10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
MariaDB/server
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
MariaDB server is a community developed fork of MySQL server. Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry.
Contributions:7 reviews, 8 commits, 60 PRs in 1 month
licensedsql-servermysqlsqlmariadb-server
mariadb-corporation/mariadb-connector-c
Sep 2023 - Sep 2023
MariaDB Connector/C is used to connect applications developed in C/C++ to MariaDB and MySQL databases.The client library is LGPL licensed.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
licensedmysql-databasesmysqlclient-libraryconnector
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