Tobias Lindaaker
Database System Engineer
Greater Malmö Metropolitan Area Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolTobias Lindaaker is a database system engineer with 18 years of experience designing and implementing database internals, query engines, and storage subsystems across companies like Neo4j, DataStax, Pinecone, and now RelationalAI. He combines deep systems-level expertise—bytecode compilation work on Jython and core contributions to Neo4j’s graph engine—with practical skills in improving consistency, indexing, and query diagnostics for production databases. Comfortable across the full backend stack, Tobias has driven architectural decisions, tooling, and QA infrastructure while shipping performance and stability improvements. Based in the Greater Malmö area, he brings a blend of academic rigour from an MSc in Computer Engineering and long-standing open-source contribution, including notable work on Neo4j and a bytecode generation framework for Jython.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Engineering, MSc Computer Engineering at Linköping University
English, Swedish, German
Github Skills (13)
jython10
javas10
query-optimization10
compiler-design10
indexing10
graph-database10
python10
bytecode10
database-design10
codegen10
java10
performance-tuning9
web-framework9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
neo4j/neo4j
Jan 2011 - Mar 2018
Graphs for Everyone
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:1134 commits, 176 PRs, 157 pushes in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily contributed to the Neo4j graph database repository with code changes related to core database functionalities. Their work involved handling data consistency issues, merging code branches, and optimizing procedures. The user also implemented features like indexing used by queries, adding a new procedure to list active locks, and including more details for query statistics. These contributions focused on improving the database's stability, functionality, and performance.
neo4j-databasedirected-acyclic-graphnosqlgraphsdatabase
jython/frozen-mirror
Jul 2007 - Feb 2010
A Mirror of hg.python.org (now frozen). Please use jython/jython.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:49 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily worked on developing a bytecode generation framework, PyASM, for the Jython project. Their initial contributions focused on reading Python bytecode to drive the framework. They added support for PEP 342 features and implemented class decorators. Additionally, the user has also worked on fixes and improvements to the existing Jython core library, and on implementing a Pyc import mechanism.
jythonpythonpython3frozen
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