Wolf Garbe
Founder at SeekStorm
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolWolf Garbe is a seasoned search entrepreneur and software architect with 12 years of experience building high-performance, scalable search systems and APIs. He founded SeekStorm (Search-as-a-Service) and previously led the peer-to-peer web search FAROO, bringing deep domain expertise from product inception to operational service. A longtime open-source contributor, his SymSpell implementation is widely used for blazing-fast spelling correction and fuzzy search, reflecting a focus on performance and memory-efficient algorithms. His background spans startup founding, enterprise system architecture, and telecom consulting, giving him a rare blend of hands-on engineering, product leadership, and systems integration experience. Based in Warsaw, he combines academic training in modeling and computer science with a pragmatic drive to make search both affordable and fast.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Information technology, Information technology at Wrocław University of Science and TechnologyDr-Ing. Computer science, Dr-Ing. Computer science at Technische Universität DresdenModelling & simulation, Modelling & simulation at University of Stuttgart
German, English, Polish, Russian
Stackoverflow
184reputation
3kreached
5answers
2questions
Github Skills (11)
algorithm10
data-structures10
algorithms10
csharp10
data-structure10
dotnet-core10
lucene6
elasticsearch6
full-text-search6
spellchecking6
joblib6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wolfgarbe/SymSpell
Mar 2014 - Mar 2022
SymSpell: 1 million times faster spelling correction & fuzzy search through Symmetric Delete spelling correction algorithm
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 410 commits, 27 PRs in 8 years
Contributions summary:Wolf's primary contribution was the initial creation and subsequent updates of the `symspell.cs` file, which implements the Symmetric Delete spelling correction algorithm. The code modifications show iterative improvements to the algorithm's performance and memory efficiency. The user also incorporated new features and optimized the existing code base to unleash the full potential of the algorithm.
string-matchingspell-checktimesspellingmillion
SeekStorm/SeekStorm
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
SeekStorm - sub-millisecond full-text search library & multi-tenancy server in Rust
Contributions:43 releases, 6 PRs, 112 pushes in 1 year 1 month
apache2bm25enterprise-searchfacetingfull-text-search
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