Brian Samek
Staff Engineer at MongoDB
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Samek is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling backend systems at MongoDB, where he progressed from Software Engineer to Director of Engineering and now serves as a Staff Engineer. Based in New York, he blends deep technical expertise with team leadership, having overseen feature delivery, architecture, and cross-functional execution across multiple product areas. His background in library and information science and anthropology gives him a user-centered perspective on data problems and a knack for organizing complexity. Known for moving between hands-on engineering and managerial roles, he focuses on reliable, maintainable systems that support developer productivity and operational scale.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Anthropology, B.A. Anthropology at New York UniversityM.S. Library and Information Science, M.S. Library and Information Science at Simmons University
French, English
Github Skills (134)
programming-language10
python10
http10
cpp10
nosql10
mongodb-driver10
system-integration10
golang10
job-queue10
queue10
database10
continuous-integration10
mongodb-database10
go10
python-requests10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bsamek/dotfiles
Feb 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:70 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 2 months
bsamek/mongo
Feb 2016 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 195 pushes, 8 branches in 7 years 8 months
mongodatabasemongodbmongo-database
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