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Robin Linacre

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Robin Linacre

Developed and maintained the Splink UDFS extension for the duckdb/community-extensions repository, focusing on record linkage and address matching capabilities. Leveraged C++ and CMake to implement phonetic algorithms, text normalization, and address-based matching, while ensuring robust build system configuration and metadata management. Enhanced the extension with WebAssembly support to enable cross-platform deployment and improved CI reliability by refining test metadata. Managed disciplined version control and repository references to support multi-branch development and reproducible builds. Prioritized maintainability and deployment readiness, delivering incremental updates that strengthened release governance, build reliability, and downstream integration for data quality and record linkage workflows.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

83%Features

Repository Contributions

13Total
Bugs
1
Commits
13
Features
5
Lines of code
88
Activity Months4

Work History

October 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Oct 1, 2025

October 2025 monthly summary for developer work on duckdb/community-extensions. Focused on version/metadata housekeeping for the Splink UDFS extension with no user-facing functional changes, enhancing release governance, traceability, and build reliability. Included a non-functional hardening change to address matching logic as part of the update.

September 2025

3 Commits • 1 Features

Sep 1, 2025

September 2025: Delivered address matching for the Splink UDFS Extension in duckdb/community-extensions, and strengthened versioning, references, and multi-branch development readiness to support stable, scalable collaboration. The changes reduce version drift and enable parallel development across branches.

August 2025

2 Commits • 1 Features

Aug 1, 2025

Month 2025-08: Delivered WebAssembly support for the Splink UDFS extension in duckdb/community-extensions and bumped to version 0.0.6. Fixed Unicode test failures by correcting description.yml metadata, improving test stability without modifying core functionality. These updates enable cross-platform UDF deployment, strengthen CI reliability, and position the extension for broader adoption and future wasm-enabled features.

July 2025

7 Commits • 2 Features

Jul 1, 2025

July 2025 monthly summary for duckdb/community-extensions: Delivered and matured Splink UDFS extension with a focus on record linkage capabilities; initial release and subsequent enhancements across 0.0.2–0.0.5 using C++/CMake; packaging metadata updated to enable deployment in pipelines. Emphasis on performance improvements, maintainability, and versioned releases to support downstream data quality workflows.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness92.2%
Maintainability92.2%
Architecture90.8%
Performance84.6%
AI Usage20.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

C++YAMLyml

Technical Skills

Build ManagementBuild System ConfigurationBuild SystemsC++C++ DevelopmentCI/CDCMakeConfiguration ManagementData CleaningDatabase ExtensionsDependency ManagementDocumentationExtension DevelopmentExtension ManagementMetadata Management

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

duckdb/community-extensions

Jul 2025 Oct 2025
4 Months active

Languages Used

C++YAMLyml

Technical Skills

Build SystemsC++C++ DevelopmentCMakeData CleaningDatabase Extensions