GraphAware Neo4j Experts

About Michal

Michal Bachman is CEO at GraphAware. He holds an MSc degree in Computing from Imperial College London, where he wrote a distinguished thesis on graph databases. Prior to founding GraphAware, Michal worked in the software industry as a developer, architect, consultant, and trainer for over 10 years. He specialises in the application of graph technologies for intelligence and law enforcement use cases, graph-based security models, and high performance graph data ingest. Michal occasionally publishes technical articles and frequently presents at conferences around the world.

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About Luanne

Luanne Misquitta is the VP of Engineering and Professional Services at GraphAware. She holds a BSc degree in Computer Science from St. Xavier’s College. Luanne is a developer, consultant, and trainer with over 20 years of experience. She has been working with Neo4j daily since 2010, which makes her one of the world's most experienced Neo4j consultants. Currently, she specialises in graph data modeling and query optimisations, with a particular focus on the law enforcement and intelligence domains. At GraphAware, Luanne builds high performing teams and promotes engineering best practices. She is a valued member of the Neo4j community and an active open-source contributor.

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About Christophe

Christophe Willemsen is the CTO at GraphAware. Before joining the team, Christophe worked as a communication systems engineer for the Belgian Navy for almost 15 years and taught courses about maritime distress and emergency communication systems. He is a skilled software engineer when shipping production code, as well as an efficient hacker on tactical assignments. Christophe is one of the main authors of Hume, GraphAware's Graph-Powered Insights Engine, and an active member of the Neo4j community.

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Alessandro Negro, Chief Scientist at GraphAware

About Alessandro

Dr. Alessandro Negro is the Chief Scientist at GraphAware. He is the author of Graph-Powered Machine Learning (Manning, 2020) and a thought leader in the space of graph-based AI and ML. He is one of the main authors of Hume, GraphAware's flagship product and a leading Knowledge Graph Platform. He specialises in natural language processing, recommendation engines, fraud detection, and graph-aided search. Before joining the team, Alessandro gained over 10 years of experience in software development and spoke at many prominent conferences such as JavaOne. Alessandro holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Salento. He is based in Southern Italy (lucky him!) but travels to clients around the world.

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About Daniela

Daniela Merglova is a Non-Executive Director at GraphAware. She was Operations Director for the initial three years of GraphAware's operation, having grown the company from zero to £1M revenue and 14 staff. Currently, she oversees the accounting agenda of all GraphAware entities and advises the management team in tax, finance, accounting, operations, and global restructuring. She holds a BSc degree in Business Administration from the State University of New York and has 8 years of experience in accounting and tax from SAP and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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About Peter

Peter Fencak is the Finance Director at GraphAware. He holds a Master’s degree in Finance from Masaryk University in Brno. He also holds CFA and ACCA certificates. After graduating from university, he joined EY where he spent 9 years working on a wide variety of assurance and advisory engagements. Before joining GraphAware, he also worked as the CFO for a FinTech start-up. At GraphAware, he is responsible for Finance, Operations, as well as strategic business activities.

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Esther Bergmark, Director of Product Management at GraphAware

About Esther

Esther Bergmark is Director of Product Management at GraphAware. She brings ten years of experience in product management and marketing in fast growing, market leading technology companies. Her approach to product management focuses on creation of value for customers. She holds a double master degree from Humboldt University and Freie Universität Berlin in Communication, Politics and Sinology. At GraphAware she is in charge of Hume, leading the growth of the product line.

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Ondrej Peterka, Marketing Director at GraphAware

About Ondrej

Ondrej Peterka is Marketing Director at GraphAware. He holds a Master’s degree in International Trade and Commercial Communications from The Prague University of Economics and Business. He started his career as a PR professional, later building and developing a digital communications department. Before joining GraphAware, he managed marketing operations in a MarTech startup. At GraphAware, he is responsible for driving business success through integrated marketing efforts.

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About Katerina

Katerina Kubalikova (also known as KK) is an Operations Manager at GraphAware. She holds a Masters degree in Business Administration from the University of Economics in Prague and has 10 years of experience in project management, operations, sales, marketing, and customer relationship management. She runs the day to day operations of the company.

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About Veronika

Veronika Srncová is Talent Manager at GraphAware. She graduated at the University of Economics in Prague with a Masters degree in HR and Business Administration. Veronika has over 12 years of experience in HR and project management, mainly in the Middle East, where she has lived and worked for the past 10 years. She is now responsible for the smooth and effective talent management at GraphAware.

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About Gabriela

Gabriela Masnicova is a Finance Manager at GraphAware responsible for accounting, reporting, tax and compliance agenda of the company. She holds a Master’s degree in Corporate Economics and Management from the University of Economics in Prague. Gabriela has over 10 years of experience in finance controlling and accounting in a multinational corporation and international environment.

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About Aldrin

Aldrin Misquitta is a Senior Consultant at GraphAware based in Abu Dhabi. Aldrin has 20+ years of experience in software development with specialisation in front end and middle tier technologies. He has strong focus on processes, automated testing and continuous development. He has spent his career working with services, startups and product companies. He loves challenges and can quickly ramp up on any new technology. Aldrin has a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from Mumbai University.

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About Jan

Jan Pesa is a Senior Consultant at GraphAware. He has profound experience with modern web development and frameworks like Angular (since early versions from 2013), Aurelia and Backbone. Jan has over 10 years of experience as a front-end developer and web designer – from small web presentations and single-purpose applications to vast corporate intranet systems. He is passionate about clean UI and maintainable code. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Master’s degree in Computer Graphics and Multimedia from Brno University of Technology.

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About Ales

Ales Havlik is a Senior Consultant at GraphAware. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Masaryk University, Czechia and an MSc. in Software Development from Open University, UK, where he wrote a thesis on Temporal Queries in Graph Database Management Systems. Ales has over 15 years of experience with software development for large organizations as well as startups. He is experienced with back end and front end development, server administration, and TCP/IP networks. Ales is currently based in Prague.

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About Miro

Dr. Miro Marchi is our Graph Specialised Anthropologist. He holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from University of Verona, where he studied the consumption of graph visualisations by members of communities of practice. Miro's skills and interests lie between social and computer sciences. He combines experience in ethnographic analysis (deep immersion in the field to understand stakeholders practices), in graph data modelling with Neo4j, and in JavaScript data visualisation. Miro facilitates project communication and helps clients to extract actionable insights with knowledge graph solutions. He is passionate about the game-changing effect of network thinking and graph technology on organisations and processes.

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About Vlasta

Dr. Vlasta Kus is a Lead Data Scientist at GraphAware. With a solid background in maths and research in subnuclear physics and several years of experience in the field of data analytics, he has gained a wide range of skills in software development, distributed computing, data processing and visualization, and machine learning. He is dedicated to expanding his knowledge base as well as pursuing his interest in figuring out the meaning of life and the universe.

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About Michal

Michal Trnka is a Senior Consultant at GraphAware. He has over 5 years of experience with software engineering and development of projects ranging from internal tools for corporations through open source frameworks to outsourced development. Michal is passionate about automation of the software development and deployment process and loves to find innovative and creative solutions to problems. He adds experience from academia: he is currently finishing his Ph.D at Czech Technical University and is a Fulbright scholar.

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About Sergio

Sergio De Lorenzis is a Senior Consultant at GraphAware. Sergio is an engineer with 10 years of experience as full stack developer, data analyst and data warehouse designer for industries like banking, healthcare and food & beverage. In the latest years he has worked as a software architect and as software developer, mainly focused on backend systems powered by micro service architectures. He firmly believes avoiding any anti-pattern is the best design pattern that ever existed.

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About Andrea

Andrea Evangelista is a Senior Consultant at GraphAware and has 10 years of experience as a full stack engineer across all spheres of application development: analysis, design, coding and testing using both proven and cutting edge technologies. A resolute, versatile, computer science and programming enthusiast with an intensely inquisitive mind describe him best. He is also passionate about writing in multiple programming languages. Previously, he has built secure, intensively tested and reliable architectures supporting a very high volume of users. Andrea holds a Computer Science degree and is a co-author of a scientific publication on Pattern Recognition Letters for a low-cost and calibration-free gaze estimator for soft biometrics.

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About Antonin

Antonin Smid is a Senior Consultant and a full-stack developer at GraphAware with a focus on front-end technologies. He has over six years of UI development experience ranging from web design to motion graphics and interactions in VR. He is passionate about readable code and effective, minimalist UI. Antonin holds a Master’s degree in software engineering from Baylor University, Texas, and is currently based in Prague.

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About Fabio

Fabio is a Data Engineer at GraphAware. As a Software Engineer he devoted most of his 10+ year career in the research field, both scientific and industrial. Ranging from neuroscience to operational oceanography through natural language processing, Fabio helped scientists to push their research forward, designing support infrastructures that are ready to be industrialized. As a bridge between science and industry, he assists with moving rapidly from scientific reasoning to product value.

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About Marco

Marco is a Machine Learning Engineer at GraphAware. With a background in Telecommunication Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Science, he spent most of his career (10+ year) in the research field, ranging from the academic to industrial environments. His interests range from object and people tracking to image and video processing. He is an experienced machine learning engineer guided by a natural attitude in finding innovative solutions oriented to product and customer requirements.

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About Zsolt

Zsolt is a Senior Consultant at GraphAware. He holds a Masters in Computer Science and has 10+ years of backend development and systems integration experience. He has a deep understanding of infrastructure provisioning, automations, migrations, governance and cloud technologies – including their product management, architecture and hands-on coding perspectives. He has extensive experience coding in Java. He enjoys communicating with clients, establishing trust and improving customer success.

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About Jiri

Jiri Palas is a Senior Consultant at GraphAware. He is a front-end developer at GraphAware with full-stack experience. He has over 6 years of experience in modern web development ranging from small internal products to large-scale projects involving micro-frontend architecture. Jiri is passionate about UI performance, maintainable code, test automation. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from Czech Technical University in Prague. When Jiri is not coding, he climbs or rides a bike in the mountains.

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About Andrés

Andrés is a Technical Lead on the Hume team. He holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Software Engineering, getting honors in his thesis based on Reverse Image Search with Machine Learning. He has successfully led software development products for various startups in India, Spain, Hong Kong and the U.K. He also has wide exposure to cybersecurity and threat analytics while working for companies like Micro Focus and Cisco. Andrés is passionate about functional programming and believes that cultivating a culture of growth mindset and collaboration is key to achieving success.

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About Daniel

Daniel Moraru is a Senior Backend developer at GraphAware. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and has been working as a software engineer in various roles from developer to architect. As a long time user of Java, he developed a strong interest in performance engineering and relishes the challenges it brings. Apart from this, he brings 20+ years of experience in building applications with Spring Boot, Node.js and React.

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About Ivan

Ivan Šarić is a developer with 5 years of experience. He has focused mostly on backend work and DevOps duties with occasional forays into the frontend domain. He is a strong Linux and Open Source supporter and is a minor contributor to the SpaCy NLP library. With a formal educational background in Political Science and an MA earned at Central European University in Budapest, Ivan likes to explore vastly different areas of human knowledge in his spare time. He is driven forward by the unexplained intuitive feeling that everything is connected.

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About Alexander

Alexander Ignacz is a Consultant at GraphAware. He moved from his home country Slovakia, to Denmark, where he studied Computer Science. He is passionate about front end development with great focus on writing clean code using JavaScript and the React or Vue.js technologies. In his free time, Alex likes travelling the world or spending time in the kitchen cooking tasty meals.

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About Hamza

Hamza is a full stack developer with 6 years of experience and a member of the Hume engineering team. He has developed a variety of applications for industries like HR, parking management and telecom and has experience working in both product and service-based companies. Hamza is adept in technologies like Java, Angular, AWS, etc. He enjoys communicating with clients and engaging with teams.

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About Adrian

Adrian is a backend consultant at GraphAware and has over 4 years of experience as a full-stack developer. He holds an MSc. in Computer Science from Warsaw Military University of Technology. Adrian is passionate about programming, solving problems and delivering value. He is experienced with Domain-Driven Design and Test Driven Development. In his spare time he likes to learn new things and work on new DIY electronic projects.

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About Nina

Nina Matejčić is a Business Development Representative at GraphAware. She graduated at the University of Zagreb with a master's degree in English language and Anthropology - both with a focus on linguistics. She started her career as a translator, and later transitioned into marketing and sales. In recent years she has worked with big brands, as well as small startups in the realm of B2B. At GraphAware she handles creating new business opportunities and advocates for the brand.

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About Irena

Irena Sevcikova joined GraphAware as Operations Support. After completing a Hotel Management Diploma in the Czech Republic she worked mainly in the hotel and airline industry. She has lived in the Middle East since 2002 and worked as a Marketing Executive for a major airline.

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About Claudia

Claudia Boellis joined GraphAware as Operations Support in Italy. After her studies, she worked in the export-import business and the tourist industry. During her professional career, she gained experience in office management and accounting.

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James Wenn, Business Development Director at GraphAware

About James

James Wenn is a Partner at GraphAware APAC and is focused on assisting enterprises across ANZ and AP succeed by using graph technology. With over 30 years of experience in information management helping customers across Government, Defence, Manufacturing, Finance and Communication industries throughout Asia Pacific. James is passionate about creating solutions that drive knowledge creation and support feedback systems to continuously improve system delivery and usability.

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About Joseph

Joseph Soukup is taking an internship position at GraphAware to deepen his hands-on development expertise. He's just finished middle school where he specialized in IT and he's on the way to start his university studies at a software development college in Prague. Joseph has already gained some experience in managing small-scale projects, providing support for the products he built and took care of creating the required infrastructure for them.

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Michal Bachman

About Michal

Luanne Misquitta

About Luanne

Christophe Willemsen

About Christophe

Alessandro Negro

About Alessandro

Daniela Merglova

About Daniela

Peter Fencak

About Peter

Esther Bergmark

About Esther

Ondrej Peterka

About Ondrej

Katerina Kubalikova

About Katerina

Veronika Srncova

About Veronika

Gabriela Masnicova

About Gabriela

Aldrin Misquitta

About Aldrin

Jan Pesa

About Jan

Ales Havlik

About Ales

Miro Marchi

About Miro

Vlasta Kus

About Vlasta

Michal Trnka

About Michal

Sergio De Lorenzis

About Sergio

Andrea Evangelista

About Andrea

Antonin Smid

About Antonin

Fabio Montagna

About Fabio

Marco Del Coco

About Marco

Zsolt Katona

About Zsolt

Jiri Palas

About Jiri

Andrés Diaz Santos

About Andrés

Daniel Moraru

About Daniel

Ivan Saric

About Ivan

Alexander Ignacz

About Alexander

Hamza Beini

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Adrian Kolodziejski

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Nina Matejcic

About Nina

Irena Sevcikova

About Irena

Claudia Boellis

About Claudia

James Wenn

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Joseph Soukup

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