Serge Rider
CTO at DBeaver
Budapest, Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolSerge Rider is a seasoned CTO and co-founder with 13+ years in software engineering and data architecture, currently leading DBeaver from Budapest. He combines hands-on backend development—especially around database interactions and Oracle support—with strategic product and cloud features, having contributed to high-profile open-source projects like the universal database tool DBeaver and CloudBeaver. His background spans technical leadership roles at EPAM, Luxoft and others, reflecting deep expertise in system architecture, integration, and team delivery. Known for pragmatic efficiency and a taste for intelligent, enjoyable engineering, he also brings an uncommon focus on improving developer-facing database tooling and GraphQL/backend resiliency.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
State University of Telecommunications
English, Russian
Github Skills (13)
graphql10
javas10
databases10
database-api10
api10
sql10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
wpgraphql10
wordpress-graphql10
java10
database10
aws9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dbeaver/dbeaver
Oct 2012 - Jan 2023
Free universal database tool and SQL client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:243 releases, 587 reviews, 33146 commits in 10 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Serge primarily focused on enhancing database interactions and resolving issues within the dbeaver/dbeaver repository. Their work involved fixing problems related to lazy properties in new objects, extra exception handling, and merging updates from the 'devel' branch. Furthermore, the user contributed to the database interaction logic, specifically regarding the Oracle database functionality, indicating a focus on improving and maintaining the core database features and connections.
sqlserversql-clientdbeaverredshiftgui
dbeaver/cloudbeaver
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Cloud Database Manager
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 67 reviews, 1422 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Serge contributed to the development of backend features by adding a new API for navigation node details and implementing AWS instance details. They also focused on optimizing existing functionality, specifically saving credentials only when specified and improving property ordering, and modifying core configurations such as adding new metadata. Furthermore, the user improved the web interface by enhancing GraphQL error handling.
database-managerdatabasescloudcloud-databasecloud-database-manager
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