The Neo4j Ninjas Program
The Neo4j Ninjas program recognizes community experts who are shaping the future of graph databases. Neo4j Ninjas are technical experts and graph enthusiasts who are committed to sharing their knowledge and love for graph databases with their communities and our larger, global network.
They are active community members, writing blogs, presenting at top conferences and community meetups, leading GitHub projects, giving interviews in podcasts and livestreams, and helping their peers with practical solutions on forums. Read about their work in the developer newsletter: This Week in Neo4j
Being a Neo4j Ninja Comes With Benefits and Perks
- Exclusive monthly calls with experts from Neo4j Engineering team
- Provide feedback directly to Neo4j teams
- Invitation to Ninja gatherings
- Featured on the community website
- Travel reimbursement for Ninjas who speak about Neo4j at technical conferences
- Networking opportunities with other graph experts
Become a Ninja
Anyone can apply to become a Ninja! Your submission should mention your contributions in the past year and a contribution plan for the coming year. Submit your application
Eligibility criteria
- Solid expertise in Graph, including any additional experience in application development, data science, data-related subjects, Cloud and more.
- Contributions to the Neo4j community: speaking at events, publishing content, mentoring peers and more in this past year
- Passion for helping others with empathy, humility and clear communication.
- A plan for regular contributions throughout the year. The contributions can be blogs, presentations, leading an open source project, answering questions and more. At least two main contributions per year are required to remain in the program.
Meet the Neo4j Ninjas
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Maxime Guery
France
Elena Kohlwey
Cologne, Germany
Arthur Namias de Crasto
Curaçao
Ashok Vishwakarma
Delhi, India
Tim Eastridge
Charlotte, United States
Ghlen Nagels
Belgium
Gabriel Tardif
Canada
Abhishek Das
Bengaluru, India
Chintan Desai
Maharashtra, India
Niklas Saers
Denmark
Christian Glessner
Germany
Sixing Huang
China
Siraj Munir
Marches, Italy
Gary Lilienfield
Virginia, United States
Stephen Mc Gowan
Sydney, Australia
Astrid Mochtarram
Berlin, Germany
Jan Žák
Prague, Czech Republic
Konrad Kaliciński
Wroclaw, Poland
Djordje Benn Maksimovic
Berlin, Germany
Antonio Spiezia
Canada
Joakim Nilsson
Malmo, Sweden
Jose Luis Latorre
Zurich, Switzerland
Koji Annoura
Japan
Véronique Gendner
Paris, France
Jamie Gaskins
Baltimore, United States
Hamza Farooq
San Francisco, US
Cüneyt Tyler
Istambul, Turkey
Moritz Wegener
Cologne, Germany
Antonio Origlia
Naples, Italy
Tomaz Bratanic
Slovenia
Matthias Buchhorn
Berlin, Germany
Dairon Perez
Cuba
Will Charles
Oxford, UK
Charchit Kapoor
India
Yogesh Kulkarni
India
Thomas Larsen
North Carolina, United States
Zach Probst
San Diego, US
Gabriel Matei Toma
Belgium
Saurabh Mishra
Pune, India
Jason Koo
Tokyo, Japan
Bhavesh Bhatt
Mumbai, India
Tom Nijhof
Netherlands
Jose Bacoy
Virginia, US
Adrien Sales
Nouméa, New Caledonia
Soren-Klein
Dresden, Germany
Manjunath Janardhan
Bengaluru, India