Engineering Culture · Systems Architecture
Building with Rust Inside an Existing Stack
FloeDB
Written during the very early days of Floe, this post reflects on how technical decisions emerge through constraints, discussion, and experimentation.
Senior Software Engineer
Database Systems, Metadata Interoperability, and Query Optimization
I work on analytical infrastructure where planner behavior, metadata accessibility, and system constraints directly shape performance.
- Analytical databases
- Query planning
- Metadata interoperability
- Lakehouse architecture
- Systems engineering
Field note
I like understanding why systems do not behave as expected, then turning that into concrete architecture or optimization work.
Outside work
- Photography
- Travel
- Fencing
- Sketching
Top skills
- SQL
- Database Systems
- Query Optimization
- Performance Tuning
Featured
Featured posts
A few posts that represent my current work and background.
Database Systems · Query Optimization · SQL
Join Elimination in Analytical Query Planners
Yellowbrick Data
Join elimination removes joins that don't contribute to query results. Doing it safely requires checking constraints, nullability, and cardinality. In distributed systems, the payoff can be an entire shuffle stage removed.
Expertise
What I work on
Main technical areas I spend most of my time on.
Database Systems
- Query optimization
- SQL planning
- Execution planning
- Analytical engines
Metadata Infrastructure
- Metadata federation
- Catalog interoperability
- Planner-friendly metadata
- Lakehouse architecture
Systems Programming
- C++
- Java
- Rust
- Compiler concepts