Robert Bindar
Software Engineer at ScyllaDB
Brasov, Romania
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolRobert Bindar is a software engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in backend systems, databases, and distributed storage engines, currently contributing at ScyllaDB after a senior engineering role at TileDB. He has deep open-source credentials from MariaDB server—where he implemented account management features and fixed security-sensitive bugs—and meaningful contributions to TileDB’s core storage and deserialization logic. His background includes multiple internships at Bloomberg and Mozilla, where he shipped production features like a Spark connector and helped shape the Notification API now used across major browsers. Trained in parallel and distributed systems and artificial intelligence, he blends rigorous academic grounding with practical low-level systems work. Based in Brașov, Romania, he’s comfortable navigating large C++/database codebases and quietly improving reliability and observability in storage-critical projects.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Parallel and Distributed Systems, Parallel and Distributed Systems at University Carlos III of MadridPOLITEHNICA București National University for Science and TechnologyMathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Unirea Highschool Focsani
English, French, Romanian
Github Skills (27)
storage-engine10
c-language10
mysql10
mariadb10
databases10
user-authentication10
authentication10
data-structure10
sql10
fileio10
file-processing10
file-handling10
data-structures10
file-access10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
TileDB-Inc/TileDB
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
The Universal Storage Engine
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:187 reviews, 81 commits, 64 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily focused on refactoring and improving the codebase, specifically eliminating the use of `LOG_FATAL` calls and addressing review comments. They made several code changes related to file operations and tile caching within the `ReaderBase` and `WriterBase` classes, indicating work on the storage engine's core functionality. Additionally, the user contributed to documentation and fixed bugs related to the storage manager's deserialization processes.
data-analysisdataframessparse-datadata-sciencescientific-computing
MariaDB/server
Jan 2019 - Nov 2021
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.
Role in this project:Backend Developer / Database Engineer
Backend Developer / Database EngineerContributions:22 reviews, 28 commits, 61 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Robert contributed significantly to the MariaDB server's core functionality, implementing features related to user account management, including account locking and password expiration policies. Their work involved modifying SQL code, system tables, and server-side logic to support these features. They also addressed a heap-use-after-free vulnerability and resolved issues related to mysqlimport and SphinxSE tests.
licensedsql-servermysqlsqlmariadb-server
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.