Vilho Raatikka
Senior Software Architect at UNICOM Global
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolVilho Raatikka is a Senior Software Architect with 13+ years crafting high-performance, high-availability and scalable server software, currently leading architecture work at UNICOM Global on an automated, flexible grid database. His career spans in-memory engine design (solidDB), HA controllers, and scale-out systems, blending academic research and patents with hands-on engineering since the early 2000s. He has deep expertise in consensus algorithms, distributed decision-making, online replication and concurrency-control, and has contributed to notable open-source projects such as MariaDB’s MaxScale. Known for turning complex distributed systems problems into comprehensive, implementable designs, he emphasizes understanding fundamentals before coding. Based in Helsinki, he combines a researcher’s rigor from the University of Helsinki with practical production experience across VMware, IBM and MariaDB.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, MSc at University of Helsinki
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Github Skills (19)
c-language10
reverse-proxy10
back-end-development10
mysql-proxy10
proxy10
cprogramming-language10
proxysql10
schema-design9
db-schema9
database-schema9
schema9
database-design9
error-handling9
logging8
multithreading8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mariadb-corporation/MaxScale
Jun 2013 - Jan 2015
An intelligent database proxy.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:844 commits, 23 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Vilho's commits primarily focused on enhancing the MaxScale database proxy. Their contributions included the addition of command-line arguments for improved logging, code for the parsing of session command strings, the creation of database table schema objects and the fixing of memory leaks, and improved session handling. The user also introduced features such as enhanced filtering and handling of potential master/slave errors.
golangproxydatabase-proxydatabasemariadb
VilhoRaatikka/goserver
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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