Adi Zaimi
Technical Team Lead at MongoDB
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolAdi Zaimi is a Technical Team Lead with nine years of experience building highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems and leading teams to ship scalable database infrastructure. At MongoDB he led the Cluster Scalability group improving sharding, resharding reliability, and CI robustness while designing techniques to surface effective shard keys from real query and index distributions. Prior roles at MongoDB and Bloomberg include core replication, fast initial sync via file-copy mechanisms, live cluster synchronization tools, and deep optimizations to RDBMS internals—demonstrating both systems-level rigor and pragmatic shipping. He contributes to the MongoDB open-source project, including fixes around BinData handling and API-versioning that kept critical tests and sharding suites healthy. Based in Greater Boston, Adi combines hands-on engineering, cross-team collaboration, and a research background in computational cognitive neuroscience to tackle complex production problems with analytical depth.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Cognitive Neuroscience at Rutgers University
Github Skills (9)
databases10
javascript10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
mongodb10
nosql10
mongodb-database10
database10
testing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
The MongoDB Database
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:23 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Adi primarily focused on resolving issues related to BinData within MongoDB tests. Their contributions involved identifying and replacing invalid BinData types in several JavaScript test files. These changes ensured the tests functioned correctly by using valid BinData and were implemented across multiple test suites, including core functionality and sharding-related tests. The user also made changes to support the API versioning.
mongodb-databasec-plus-plusdatabasemongodbnosql
adizaimi/comdb2
May 2017 - Aug 2021
Bloomberg's distributed RDBMS
Contributions:2 PRs, 2422 pushes, 1328 branches in 4 years 3 months
bloombergdatabaserdbmsdistributed
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