Satia Herfert
Senior Software Engineer at Neo4j
Malmo, Sweden
Summary
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RockstarSatia Herfert is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience, specializing in back-end and database engineering at Neo4j where she contributes to the Cypher query language, planner, and runtime. She combines research-rooted rigor—having studied Distributed Software Systems and published work on automated debugging—with practical production impact, including refactors that improved aggregation analysis and subquery correctness in Neo4j’s core. Based in Malmö, she explores parallelized runtimes and performance-driven query execution, and is comfortable working in Scrum teams. Her background spans academic research, robotics communications, and connectivity projects for low-infrastructure regions, reflecting a pragmatic problem-solver who brings systems-thinking to database internals.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
German, English, Spanish, Swedish
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Github Skills (9)
javas10
graph-database10
java10
optimization9
database-optimization9
optimisation9
query-optimization9
http6
proxy6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
neo4j/neo4j
Aug 2017 - Jan 2023
Graphs for Everyone
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:1968 commits, 208 PRs, 111 pushes in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Satia primarily contributed to the core functionalities of the Neo4j graph database, focusing on improvements to query execution and performance. Their work involved refactoring code to enhance the efficiency of aggregation analysis and to correctly handle edge cases within subqueries, specifically addressing issues with variable scopes and predicate evaluation. Further contributions included improvements to the test suite for testing the efficiency of querying data from index based plans.
neo4j-databasedirected-acyclic-graphnosqlgraphsdatabase
neo4j/neo4j.github.com
Sep 2017 - Jan 2020
Web published resources
Contributions:1 review, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 3 months
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