Cailin Nelson
Executive Vice President, Cloud Engineering at MongoDB
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolCailin Nelson is an accomplished cloud engineering executive with 14 years of experience leading the team behind the MongoDB Cloud Platform, now serving as Executive Vice President, Cloud Engineering. She rose through multiple senior engineering roles at MongoDB since 2013, scaling cloud services from early architecture to a production-grade global platform. Prior to MongoDB, she led engineering teams at Kiva.org, Turntable.fm, SquareTrade and others, shipping rapid product iterations and running teams as large as 20 engineers. Her background in physics (AB Dartmouth, PhD studies at UC Berkeley) informs a data-driven, systems-oriented approach to large distributed systems. Based in Boulder, Colorado, she combines hands-on architectural leadership with operational rigor and a knack for rapid launches—having led zero-to-launch efforts like Kiva Zip in 72 days. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic builder who turns research-caliber thinking into scalable, customer-facing cloud products.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at University of California, BerkeleyAB, Physics, AB, Physics at Dartmouth College
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Github Skills (35)
mongoose10
ruby-on-rails10
authentication9
ajax9
cron9
jquery9
paypal9
rspec9
mongodb9
e-mail9
mongodb-driver9
nodejs8
mongodb-atlas7
passenger6
asset-pipeline6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb-labs/mms-api-examples
Mar 2015 - Jun 2018
This Repository is NOT a supported MongoDB product
Contributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 20 pushes in 3 years 4 months
supportednodejsmongoosemongodb-drivermongodb
cailinanne/assets
Oct 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push in 1 year
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