Chaya Malik
Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChaya Malik is a Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB with eight years of experience building reliable back-end systems and distributed tooling. She has progressed through internship and mid-level roles at MongoDB, contributing notably to Evergreen, the company's open-source distributed CI system, where she focused on robustness, S3 artifact handling, and Jira/commit-queue integrations. Comfortable in large-scale production environments, she combines deep Java/C++/Go backend skills with practical experience validating artifact workflows and hardening error-prone code paths. Her background includes teaching data structures at Columbia, which sharpened her ability to explain complex concepts and mentor peers. Outside of core engineering, she began as a freelance web designer, giving her an appreciation for usable, well-documented systems. Based in the United States, she brings a pragmatic, end-to-end approach to shipping developer-facing infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) Math and Science- Honors , Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) Math and Science- Honors at Rockland Community CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at Columbia University
Yiddish, English, German
Github Skills (8)
aws-s310
go10
amazon-s310
back-end-development10
s3-bucket10
cicd9
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
evergreen-ci/evergreen
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
A Distributed Continuous Integration System from MongoDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2302 reviews, 251 commits, 874 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Chaya primarily contributed to back-end development within the Evergreen CI system, focusing on enhancing its functionalities and resolving issues. Their work involved addressing errors and panics related to project and distro IDs, expanding features for attaching files and managing S3 uploads, and adding validation to artifact attachments. They also made improvements to the commit queue and the associated Jira integration.
continuouscontinuous-integrationsystem-integrationmongodbdistributed
malikchaya2/commit-queue-sandbox
Nov 2022 - Jun 2024
Repository for experimenting with the evergreen commit queue
Contributions:2 PRs, 61 pushes, 93 branches in 1 year 7 months
experimentingcommitevergreen
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