A Davis
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolA Davis is a Senior Staff Engineer with 15 years focused on distributed systems and databases, currently working on replication at MongoDB from New York. They combine deep C++ and Python expertise—contributing to core MongoDB server code, drivers (PyMongo, C/C++), and high-profile open-source projects like Tornado and a multithreading-aware Python profiler (yappi). Their work spans specification and test authoring for SDAM, bug fixes that address subtle race conditions and shutdown semantics, and practical tooling improvements for launching and monitoring MongoDB clusters. Colleagues rely on them for stabilizing complex replication and index-build workflows; less obvious is their appetite for polishing developer UX across drivers and tooling, not just core engine logic.
16 years of coding experience
International Center for PhotographyBA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Oberlin College
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/specifications
Sep 2014 - Jan 2019
Specifications related to MongoDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:13 reviews, 258 commits, 68 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:A contributed significantly to the MongoDB specifications repository, focused on the Server Discovery and Monitoring (SDAM) component. Their work included defining the specification, summarizing it, and creating test cases. The user also added wire protocol compatibility information, fixed references to Java Driver property names, and made general syntax and markdown improvements. The user also made several updates to the repository's tests, including the test README.
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mongodb/mongo-c-driver
Dec 2014 - Nov 2018
The Official MongoDB driver for C language
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:59 releases, 2806 commits, 241 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:A primarily contributed to the MongoDB C Driver, focusing on adding features and fixing bugs. Their contributions include improving the documentation for the library, refactoring server-error checks, and refactoring code for transactions. Additionally, the user introduced new API features and made performance-related changes.
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