aMahanna

SWE & Tech Lead at ArangoDB

2000 - 2023: I grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, where I graduated from the University of Ottawa with a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science. As part of the Winter 2023 Honours batch, I wrote & presented Semantics in Graph Databases: Extending ArangoDB's support for RDF, Ontologies, and beyond (link). The work was awarded the Cognos Prize, and continues to be maintained on Github.

2021: I first used ArangoDB while applying for Shopify's internship program in Summer 2021. The Shopify Developer Challenge for that semester was to build an image repository to perform any kind of CRUD on images. After submitting the project, I failed Shopify's "life story" interview. So I took it to ArangoDB, presented it, and was hired as an intern in Fall 2021.

2024 - Present: Now based in Brooklyn, New York, I continue to work at ArangoDB, building software for Graph Analytics, Graph Machine Learning, and GraphRAG: docs.arango.ai/ai-suite. I also built & now lead a team of 5 junior engineers, and am responsible for ArangoDB's technical partnership with NVIDIA, maintaining embedded access. Through this partnership, NVIDIA adopted ArangoDB internally & externally (1, 2, 3).

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