Alena Khineika
Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAlena Khineika is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with eight years of experience building scalable full-stack applications and developer tools using TypeScript, Node.js, React, Electron and modern CI practices. She has shipped features and fixed deep corner-cases across MongoDB products—contributing UI components to MongoDB Compass and core improvements to the official Node.js driver—demonstrating expertise spanning both front-end UX and low-level database client behavior. Comfortable in OOP and functional paradigms, she designs REST and GraphQL APIs, integrates generative AI, and drives quality through BDD/TDD and automated pipelines. A practiced technical writer and presenter, she authors design docs and engineering blog posts and mentors peers while balancing product delivery with long-term code health. Notably, her open-source work touches high-profile projects used by many developers, reflecting a blend of customer-focused problem solving and platform-level engineering.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Information systems and technologies in the processing and presentation of information, Master’s Degree Information systems and technologies in the processing and presentation of information at Belarusian National Technical University
English, German, Russian, Russian
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Github Skills (19)
component-based10
javascript10
back-end-development10
databases10
ui-design10
mongodb-database10
uid10
front-end-development10
modular-architecture10
nodejs10
lessc10
backend10
mongodb10
react10
database10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb-js/compass
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
The GUI for MongoDB.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:316 reviews, 479 commits, 195 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Alena primarily contributed to the development of UI components for the MongoDB Compass GUI. Their commits focused on creating and modifying React components, including those for adding and deleting stages, along with associated styling using LESS. The contributions are centered on building the user interface for the application's aggregation feature. Unit tests for the implemented components are also included in the user commits.
compassmongodbguimongoose-plugin
mongodb/node-mongodb-native
Jul 2019 - Mar 2024
The official MongoDB Node.js driver
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:84 reviews, 20 PRs, 125 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Alena contributed to the MongoDB Node.js driver, implementing and modifying core functionality related to database operations. They deprecated GridFS fields, updated the driver's behavior with load-balanced configurations, and addressed retryable write errors. They also refactored code related to connection management, command execution, and the handling of read preferences. Their work focused on improving the driver's performance, reliability, and compliance with MongoDB specifications.
nosqlnode-jsnode-mongodbnode-librarynodejs
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