Tobias Gödderz
CoreDB Technical Lead at Arango
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTobias Gödderz is a seasoned database engineer and technical leader with 11 years of experience, now leading CoreDB at Arango from Cologne, Germany. He specializes in distributed systems and multi-model databases, contributing in-depth bug fixes and architecture improvements to the well-known ArangoDB project that reveal a strong grasp of shard distribution, agency coordination, and smart graph internals. Tobias blends academic rigor—dual diplomas in computer science and mathematics from the University of Bonn and early research in functional programming and program synthesis—with pragmatic production delivery across backend systems. He has progressed from developer to team lead to technical lead, driving efforts to preserve contextual data for enterprise AI transformation. Known for quietly solving subtle database correctness and upgrade issues, he favors durable, principled engineering over flashy shortcuts.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Science, Diploma, Computer Science at The University of Bonn
German, English
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Github Skills (22)
c-language10
databases10
distributed-systems10
cprogramming-language10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
data-structure9
algorithm9
algorithms9
datastructures-algorithms9
data-structures9
performance-optimization8
sorting6
arangodb6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
arangodb/arangodb
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
🥑 ArangoDB is a native multi-model database with flexible data models for documents, graphs, and key-values. Build high performance applications using a convenient SQL-like query language or JavaScript extensions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:803 reviews, 763 commits, 615 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Tobias's commits primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements to the ArangoDB database system. They worked on issues related to database upgrades, distribution of shards in virtual collections, the removal of followers in the agency, and smart graph functionality. The commits reveal a deep understanding of the inner workings of the database and the distributed system's architecture.
data-modelsdatabase-modelextensionsjavascriptquery-language
goedderz/CLion-settings
Feb 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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