Evan Nixon
Lead Engineer at MongoDB
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Nixon is a Lead Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building full‑stack products and developer-facing features, currently shaping Atlas Search at MongoDB. He moves fluidly between backend systems and frontend UX—having implemented core Rails services and React/Redux interfaces earlier in his career—and now leads technical efforts on a distributed database search platform. Evan’s background includes signal-processing and machine-learning work at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, giving him a strong grounding in algorithmic problem solving that he brings to large-scale cloud services. He’s known for simplifying complex workflows to make products that delight users and for mentoring engineers through hiring and internal guild leadership.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Systems Engineering and Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Economics, Systems Engineering and Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Economics at Washington University in St. LouisMaster's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (19)
kotlin10
nosql10
kotlin-coroutines10
atlas10
java10
mongodb-database10
kotlin-library10
mongodb-atlas10
mongodb10
database10
jvm9
scala9
terraform8
configurations8
terraform-provider7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
navenoxin/mongo
Jan 2019 - Jul 2019
The MongoDB Database
Contributions:2 PRs, 109 pushes, 8 branches in 5 months
mongodb-databasedatabasemongodbfaunadb
navenoxin/navenoxin.github.io
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
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