Blake Oler
Lead Engineer, Service Architecture at MongoDB
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBlake Oler is a Lead Engineer in Service Architecture at MongoDB with 11 years of engineering experience building resilient, distributed systems. He has progressed through multiple roles at MongoDB from intern to lead, focusing on back-end and database engineering and improving test infrastructure for complex sharded and transactional workloads. Blake contributes to the flagship mongodb/mongo repository, adding concurrency tests and enhancing resilience around resharding and stepdowns—work that improves reliability for a widely used database. Based in New York, he combines hands-on coding with system-level design, mentorship, and operational thinking. Early internships and full-stack projects gave him practical exposure to web, data, and monitoring stacks, informing his pragmatic approach to architecture. Despite calling himself a “professional-in-training,” his track record shows steady ownership of critical, hard-to-test distributed behaviors.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Southern California
Github Skills (13)
databases10
transaction10
mongodb10
sharding10
nosql10
mongodb-database10
database10
concurrency9
testing9
cpp8
c-language8
cplus8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo
Sep 2017 - Dec 2022
The MongoDB Database
Role in this project:
Back-end & Database Engineer
Back-end & Database EngineerContributions:407 commits, 2 PRs, 193 pushes in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Blake's contributions focused on adding transaction tags to tests, and creating and testing concurrency workloads related to resharding. They implemented new tests for transaction support within a sharded MongoDB environment, dealing with update and replace operations. The user also worked on improving the testing infrastructure to account for stepdowns in the distributed environment. Key work includes improving the resilience of the test suite.
mongodb-databasec-plus-plusdatabasemongodbnosql
BlakeIsBlake/mongo
Oct 2017 - Aug 2022
The MongoDB Database
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 18 branches in 4 years 11 months
faunadbmongodb-databasedatabasemongodb-drivermongodb
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