Yuki Donath
Senior Software Engineer at Neo4j
Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolYuki Donath is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in networking and backend systems, currently working at Neo4j in Paderborn. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Java and Kotlin, complemented by Go and occasional C++ work, and focuses on low-level correctness and performance in network protocols and memory handling. A long-time contributor to the Neo4j graph database, he has improved Bolt protocol handling, HTTP transaction processing, and memory tracking to boost stability at scale. Previously a founder of Torchmind, he built microservice platforms, licensing systems, and even game-engine tooling, showing a practical blend of architect-level design and implementation. Comfortable across real-time pipelines, event-driven microservices, and CI/CD, he combines systems thinking with pragmatic delivery. Colleagues appreciate that he’s as at home “lost in graph world” as he is untangling subtle protocol edge cases.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
IT Assistant, IT Assistant at Berufliche Schulen des HSK in OlsbergMPS AdorfUplandschule Willingen
English, German, Japanese
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Github Skills (9)
javas10
junit10
bolt10
network-programming10
java10
jtest10
graph-database9
memory-management9
netty8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
neo4j/neo4j
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
Graphs for Everyone
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:83 commits, 5 comments, 3 issues in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Yuki primarily contributed to the Neo4j graph database project by implementing and testing features related to network connections, memory tracking, and HTTP transaction handling within the Bolt protocol. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving low-level functionalities, including memory allocation and release, ensuring stability and performance, and addressing potential error conditions. The user also worked on core aspects of the Bolt protocol, such as version negotiation and data serialization, with a focus on code correctness and handling of edge cases.
neo4j-databasedirected-acyclic-graphnosqlgraphsdatabase
Torchmind/CIDRUtility
Sep 2015 - Jul 2020
Contributions:3 releases, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 10 months
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