Alex Mohr
Database Administrator Software Engineer
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Mohr is a Database Administrator and Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building and optimizing data-driven systems at scale, currently at TripAdvisor. He pairs deep database administration expertise with hands-on C++ backend development, having contributed performance-focused refactors to Pixar Animation Studios' OpenUSD repository by modernizing code with C++11 patterns, reducing legacy Boost usage, and addressing memory-management bottlenecks. Alex holds a BS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and brings a practical eye for both reliability and performance engineering. He’s equally comfortable tuning production databases and delving into low-level code improvements that yield measurable throughput and maintainability gains.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (10)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
performance-optimization10
usd10
memory-management9
lib8
algorithms8
algorithm8
boost8
software-design8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PixarAnimationStudios/OpenUSD
Aug 2016 - Jan 2023
Universal Scene Description
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 640 commits, 5 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alex's contributions focused on refactoring and optimizing the USD scene description library within the pixaranimationstudios/openusd repository. They primarily modified the code to use C++11 features like range-for loops and static assertions, improving code readability. Additionally, the user replaced BOOST_FOREACH usage, and addressed memory management issues. Some performance enhancements have been implemented by utilizing architectural abstractions like memory mapping.
universal-scene-descriptionscene
gitamohr/USD-proposals
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
Share and collaborate on proposals for the advancement of USD
Contributions:32 pushes, 5 comments, 1 issue in 1 year 10 months
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