Hi, my name is Michael 👋

I've been passionate about software development for more than 30 years.

For the last 15 years, I've been working on the open source Neo4j graph database filling many roles, most recently as Head of Product Innovation and Developer Product strategy and as part of that organizing the Neo4j Labs efforts. My current focus areas is the integrations of Graphs with Generative AI, e.g in the GraphRAG patterns.

As a long time caretaker of the Neo4j community and ecosystem I love to work with graph-related projects, users, and contributors.

In general I enjoy many aspects of programming languages, learning new things every day, participating in exciting and ambitious open source projects and contributing and writing software related books and articles. I spoke at numerous conferences and helped organized several of them.

My efforts in the Java community got me accepted to the JavaChampions program.

I'm running a weekly girls-only coding club at our local school.

• 🔭 I’m currently working on https://neo4j.com/labs/genai-ecosystem
• 🌱 I’m currently improving my skills in product management, working across teams and strategic thinking
• 💬 Ask me about: java, GenAI, kotlin, graphs, graphql, Cypher
• 📫 How to reach me: https://chaos.social/@mesirii
• 😄 Pronouns: he/him
• ⚡ Fun fact: I used to own a coffee shop Die Buchbar which had a bookish, steam-punk interior and hosted local artists.

Social

• Mastodon
• LinkedIn

Content

• Homepage
• StackOverflow
• Medium
• Talks
• JavaSpektrum Articles (German) - "Effective Java"

Past Projects

I've initiated these projects: llm-graph-builder, neo4j-graph-algorithms (graph-data-science), neo4j-graphql, neo4j-spark-connector, neo4j-streams (kafka), neo4j-apoc-procedures, csv-bulk-importer, spring-data-neo4j, cypher-dsl, neo4j-jdbc.