Brian Samek
Staff Engineer at MongoDB
New York, New York, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolBrian Samek is a Staff Engineer at MongoDB in New York with 14 years of experience who progressed through roles from Software Engineer to Lead Engineer and Director of Engineering before returning to a senior technical position. He brings a rare blend of hands-on development, operations experience and people leadership—roots as a systems administrator and technology librarian inform his practical approach to reliability and developer experience. At MongoDB he pairs deep product and architectural knowledge with mentorship and delivery focus to drive scalable systems. His path from library tech to engineering director gives him an unusual talent for translating complex technical tradeoffs into clear, team-centered solutions.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., B.A. at New York UniversityM.S., M.S. at Simmons University
French, English
Github Skills (149)
programming-language10
python10
http10
c-plus-plus10
cookies10
cpp10
nosql10
mongo10
mongodb-driver10
system-integration10
golang10
job-queue10
queue10
database10
continuous-integration10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bsamek/dotfiles
Feb 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:70 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 2 months
bsamek/mongo
Feb 2016 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 195 pushes, 8 branches in 7 years 8 months
mongodatabasemongodbmongo-database
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.