Daniel Alabi
Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Alabi is an Assistant Professor and researcher with 11 years of experience at the intersection of distributed systems, databases, and applied mathematics, currently based in Champaign, Illinois. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard and has blended academic research roles at Harvard and Columbia with industry internships and engineering work at MongoDB, Google, and Microsoft. His contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Automattic/mongoose demonstrate practical impact—improving query semantics, schema validation, and GeoJSON handling for real-world data models. As a Simons Foundation Junior Fellow and active postdoctoral researcher, he brings a rigorous theoretical background to systems problems and a track record of shipping robust, well-tested code. Colleagues describe him as a researcher-engineer who navigates both deep theory and production-quality engineering, often surfacing subtle correctness fixes that improve long-lived libraries.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Harvard UniversityGraduate Researcher, Applied Mathematics, Graduate Researcher, Applied Mathematics at Columbia UniversityB.A., Mathematics and Computer Science, B.A., Mathematics and Computer Science at Carleton College
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
nodejs10
schema-design10
mongodb10
mongodb-database10
testing9
database-design8
odm7
orm7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/mongoose
Oct 2014 - Dec 2014
MongoDB object modeling designed to work in an asynchronous environment.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Daniel contributed to the Mongoose library, focusing on improvements to query functionality, schema validation, and the handling of nested fields. They added tests to ensure correct behavior for discriminator models, specifically related to `findById` and array updates. Their work included addressing bugs and enhancing the library's functionality around GeoJSON specifications and model creation.
asynchronousmongodbmongonodejsodm
opendp/cs208
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:98 commits, 82 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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