Florian is the CEO and Co-founder of Mesosphere. As one of the brightest technical minds in Silicon Valley, Florian enabled Twitter to establish a microservice architecture and built AirBnB’s big data team. At Mesosphere, he is now building DC/OS, the revolutionary open source datacenter operating system based on Apache Mesos, which is already used at his former companies in exciting use cases like Verizon Wireless. Florian will help ArangoDB to further sharpen its focus on the needs of large scale enterprises, their problems and solutions.

Ted is Chief Application Architect at MapR and has years of experience with machine learning and other big data solutions across a range of sectors, notably in recommendation systems and fraud detection. With twenty-five patents, and more pending, he has a long history of innovation. Dunning has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Sheffield and is active in a number of open source projects as a contributor and mentor. He is currently serving on the board of the Apache Software Foundation.

Gudrun is always on the lookout for the next great talent to add to the ArangoDB family. She is a passionate Tech Recruiter and your first choice if you want to join ArangoDB. If she is not in the office, you can find her somewhere in the great outdoors.

After more than 30 years of playing around with 8 bit computers, assembler and scripting languages, Jan decided to move on to work in database engineering. Jan is now a senior C/C++ developer with the ArangoDB core team, being there from version 0.1. He is mostly working on performance optimization, storage engines and the querying functionality.

Michael Hackstein is a Senior Graph Specialist @ ArangoDB Inc. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science and is the creator of ArangoDBs graph capabilities. During his academic career he focused on complex algorithms and especially graph databases. Michael is an internationally experienced speaker who loves salad, cake and clean code.

Max Neunhöffer is a mathematician turned database developer. In his academic career he has worked for 16 years on the development and implementation of new algorithms in computer algebra. During this time he has juggled a lot with mathematical big data like group orbits containing trillions of points. Recently he has returned from St. Andrews to Germany, has shifted his focus to NoSQL databases, and now helps to develop ArangoDB.

Jörg Schad is our Head of Engineering and Machine Learning. In a previous life, he worked on Machine Learning Infrastructure in health care, distributed systems at Mesosphere, implemented distributed and in-memory databases, and conducted research in the Hadoop and Cloud area. He’s a frequent speaker at meetups, international conferences, and lecture halls.

Wilfried is another one of the C/C++ developers working for the ArangoDB Core Team. He also works on measuring and optimization of the performance.

Jan is a senior C++ developer working on ArangoDB’s core. He is also supporting and developing ArangoDB fuerte driver. Jan holds a Masters degree in Computer Science and is also known among friends as Obi.

Andrey is an expert in information retrieval and recommendation systems. He is passionate about state-of-art search techniques and data similarity measures. As the member of ArangoDB core team he is responsible for developing the ArangoSearch engine and further integration into the ArangoDB core.

Simon is a C++ developer and works in the Graph Team at ArangoDB. He is passionate about distributed systems and computer graphics. For ArangoDB he wrote the Pregel graph processing system and is working on various other graph related topics as well as on ArangoDBs storage engine.

Vadim develops and supports ArangoDB’s QA process based on technical and non-technical requirements to ensure that the company has a high level of quality, reliability and fault-tolerance.

Richard is a research mathematician (computational group theory) and software developer in about equal proportions. His interest is primarily in software performance – such issues as multi-core, cache usage, vector instructions and avoiding unpredictable branches – particularly on the x86 platform. His contributions to ArangoDB are primarily in this area.

Sven is taking care of the everything starting with official ArangoDB packages build process, making sure our servers run smoothly, the website is always online, emails get send out and everyone in the team has working computers.

Lars is a C++ developer at ArangoDB. He is working now on the server infrastructure. He is a recent university graduate, math enthusiast and cryptography hobbyist. Lars has started programming at school as a hobby, where he looked into the web related technologies like JavaScript and PHP and later he focused on C and C++.

Heiko is a JavaScript and C++ Developer working on ArangoDB’s frontend and backend. He holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science and is passionate about new technologies and programming. Whilst completing his Bachelor degree, Heiko dived deeper into ArangoDB and focused on developing geo location-based services.

Kaveh, Master in theoretical physics in Cologne, Zuerich and Bonn. Ph.D. in physics. Joined ArangoDB after medical imaging research and lecturing at Juelich Research Center, RWTH Aachen University, Maastricht University and New York University. He joined ArangoDB in 2016 as a core software engineer. He has been responsible for the development of core facilities in the ArangoDB cluster; among them the consensus infrastructure.

Michele is a software engineer working on the development of the Java driver and frameworks integrations. He is passionate about software design, software quality and everything JVM related. In his free time, he likes playing chess and riding MTB.

Ewout is a software engineer who has worked in lots of different industries, ranging from financial services, to software development tools to cloud providers. He has played various roles such as software engineer, architect, project lead and entrepreneur. In recent years Ewout has worked extensively on highly distributed system running on various cloud platforms, most related to, or based on Kubernetes. He is the leading Architect and Teamlead of ArangoDB Oasis – the managed service for ArangoDB. He is also the original author of ArangoDB Go driver, Kubernetes operator and Arango Datacenter to Datacenter replication.

Tobias is a C++ developer in ArangoDB’s graph team with a background in discrete mathematics and functional programming. He loves programming in strong, statically typed languages and favors software verification to help in writing reliable and useful software.

Alan is an experienced web developer who feels equally at home in the backend and frontend. At ArangoDB he works on everything regarding JavaScript, with a special focus on Foxx.

Dan is a C/C++ developer with the ArangoDB core team. He has worked on the storage engines, caching system, and performance testing and optimization. If it involves non-trivial data structures, he’s interested.

Chris has over 10 years experience at all angles of technology including service, support, and development. He is also passionate about learning and right now he is focused on improving the learning experience for the ArangoDB community. Chris believes the future is native multi-model and wants to help tell the world.

Adam has worked on the Kubernetes and Hadoop solutions. He likes to dig into the core of each software problem which he will face. For ArangoDB he works on the Kubernetes Operator.

Gergely is an avid techy with a great love for Go and all things Kubernetes and DevOps. In his spare time, he likes to tinker on Go and other FOSS projects. When not around a laptop, he enjoys gaming, D&D, watching series, playing with his daughter, and being a skipper on a 39″ boat.

Andrei is C++ developer in ArangoDB core team with 10+ years experience in multithreaded automation systems.
Currently he is developing ArangoSearch engine. Andrei is passionate about building reliable, fault-tolerate software.

Rajiv has a background in software development and machine learning. He has developed enterprise grade applications for various application domains -retail, telecom, financial services etc.. He has a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters in Data Mining. He is wrapping up a PhD in Machine Learning. For his PhD, his research focus\sed on developing computational approaches for machine learning on big datasets. He is interested in applying machine learning to solve practical business problems. He believes machine learning and graph data can compliment each other well and have an intrinsic connection.

Markus is a Computer Mathemagician. Starting programming on a Commodore C64, he later spent a long time at universities doing undergraduate degrees in computer science and mathematics, earning a PhD in pure mathematics at the University of St Andrews, and doing PostDoc work in Manchester and St Andrews on practical algorithms in computer algebra, in which graphs featured heavily. Markus joined ArangoDB as a C++ developer in 2019 and mainly works on graph algorithms and AQL.
In his free time he codes in Racket, learns Scottish Gaelic, and explores the
Scottish Highlands.

Robert has developed many successful products mainly in C#. He loves to write product grade code, including tests. He is focused on cloud platforms, and currently specialized in Kubernetes. He is one of the engineers who is creating *ArangoDB Oasis:* _The Managed Cloud for ArangoDB_. Previously he worked at one of the most security minded companies in the world, so *Security* is his second name.

Mohammad is passionate about android application development and recently worked on public transportation ticket validating machines for settings optimization, functionality, and software testing. Mohammad achieved the URC’19 special research award for his final year thesis in the event of the Undergraduate Research Award 2019. Mohammad recently completed his bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from University Technology Malaysia and working towards his master’s degree in Communication Systems and Networks at TH Cologne.