Tania Bogatsch
Engineering Manager at DuckDB
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolTania Bogatsch is an engineering manager and database specialist with seven years of experience building and optimizing storage engines and indexing structures. Based in Amsterdam, she rose through hands-on roles at DuckDB—from back-end developer improving the ART index to engineering manager—contributing performance-driven refactors and foreign-key/duplicate handling features to a widely used analytical in-process SQL database. Her academic background in databases and research experience at CWI and Ilmenau inform a methodical, research-informed approach to engineering decisions. Known on GitHub for "all things database," she combines deep systems knowledge with team leadership to ship robust, low-level database features that power analytics workloads.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Databases and Information Systems, Master of Science - MS Databases and Information Systems at Technische Universität Ilmenau
German, English
Github Skills (17)
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algorithms10
storage-engine10
c-language10
databases10
query-optimization10
data-structure10
optimisation10
data-structures10
datastructures-algorithms10
cprogramming-language10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database-optimization10
optimization10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
duckdb/duckdb
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
DuckDB is an analytical in-process SQL database management system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:488 reviews, 326 commits, 233 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Tania's commits focus on refactoring and implementing enhancements to the ART index, a core component of the DuckDB database. The work includes improvements to the data structure and functionality of the ART index, which suggests a focus on improving the performance and capabilities of the database's storage layer. This includes changes to internal APIs for the data structures used in the index, and adding capabilities to include foreign key management and handling of duplicates.
management-systemanalyticsduckdbmysqlembedded-database
taniabogatsch/duckdb-web
Mar 2022 - Feb 2025
This repo holds the contents of duckdb.org
Contributions:3 PRs, 28 pushes, 30 branches in 3 years
contentsduckdb
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