Annie Black
Engineering Team Lead at MongoDB
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnnie Black is an engineering team lead with nine years of experience building and operating backend systems, currently leading Evergreen, MongoDB’s distributed internal CI platform, from New York. She combines hands-on backend development—contributing to Evergreen’s core infrastructure and database operations—with people leadership, growing engineers through regular 1:1s, mentorship, and minimal, pragmatic processes. Annie stepped in to align UI and backend teams during a transitional period, demonstrating product-oriented leadership beyond her primary domain. Her early work spans tooling in Go for AWS cost visibility and automation, reflecting a knack for operational tooling and cost-aware engineering. She values solving technical puzzles and delivering measurable impact on developer productivity and organizational standards. Collected technical depth, mentorship focus, and a habit of filling gaps make her effective at both shipping features and shaping team culture.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Statistics and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Statistics and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityHigh School, High School at St. Charles North High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
rest-api10
go10
testing9
database-design9
cicd8
git7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
evergreen-ci/evergreen
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
A Distributed Continuous Integration System from MongoDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4256 reviews, 809 commits, 2006 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Annie contributed to the development of the Evergreen CI system, primarily focusing on back-end and related infrastructure enhancements. Their contributions included adding debugging logic for task group races, removing support for legacy code, fixing a user panic, updating update operations, and modifying the code related to Github hooks. They also worked on defining database operations.
continuous-integrationmongodb
ablack12/sink
Jun 2017 - Apr 2020
data sink service
Contributions:32 pushes, 31 branches in 2 years 10 months
kafkasinkdata-sink
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