Alexander Neben
Director Of Engineering at MongoDB
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Neben is a results-driven, highly technical Director of Engineering in Seattle with a decade of experience scaling developer productivity for large C++ codebases and cloud databases. At MongoDB he leads multiple teams building Bazel-based build systems, correctness tooling, and performance infrastructure—driving measurable improvements in build times, availability, and benchmarking fidelity. He pairs hands-on backend and build-system contributions (including work on the widely used mongodb/mongo project and Windows installer tooling) with metric-driven leadership focused on customer impact. Previously he progressed from engineering roles to management at Ocient and co-founded a consumer startup, demonstrating both startup grit and enterprise execution. Collectedly, he blends systems-level engineering, tooling expertise, and organizational scaling to cut cycle time and increase confidence in complex distributed services.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Michigan College of Engineering
Github Skills (14)
databases10
c-language10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
mongodb10
cplus10
mongodb-database10
database10
scripting9
nosql9
shell9
script9
sh9
debian-packaging8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo
May 2022 - Jan 2023
The MongoDB Database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 138 commits, 1 PR in 8 months
Contributions summary:Alexander's commits primarily revolve around modifications to the MongoDB installer, specifically for the Windows platform, by adding a download link for the Mongo shell. Subsequent commits addressed the removal of the mongo shell from the default build. Further commits show changes to the build scripts, debian and enterprise rule files. These changes included removing the mongo shell from the enterprise and database tool builds, and updates for different platforms.
nosqlc-plus-plusmongodb-databasedatabasemongodb
IamXander/NetworkStackTesting
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:23 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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