Fiona Rowan
Worker-owner at Self-employed
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFiona Rowan is a full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience building production-quality systems, mentoring teams, and leading complex projects across MongoDB’s Atlas product lines. She has deep backend expertise — including contributions to the official mongodb C driver (notably GridFS and collection/index operations) — and a track record of shipping secure, maintainable code in high-scale environments. Based in New York, she pairs a Columbia Engineering CS degree with an economics background from Barnard, giving her a pragmatic, product-focused perspective. Recently she’s moved into worker-owner entrepreneurship, developing an indie narrative rhythm game while continuing to apply systems thinking learned at MongoDB.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Economics, Bachelor’s Degree, Economics at Barnard CollegeBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Columbia Engineering
English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
c1710
mongodb-driver10
c1110
mongodb10
nosql10
mongodb-database10
api-design9
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo-c-driver
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
The Official MongoDB driver for C language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 35 PRs, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Fiona primarily contributed to the C driver for MongoDB, implementing and modifying core functionalities for GridFS. Their work focused on the `mongoc_gridfs_file_set_id` function, which allows users to specify the file ID of any type. They also addressed validation within `mongoc_read_prefs_t`, and developed new functionalities such as creating collections and dropping indexes. In addition, the user provided several functions such as `mongoc_collection_aggregate_with_write_concern`.
c-languagemongodb-drivercmongodbnosql
fionaRowan/mongo-c-driver
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:44 pushes, 38 branches in 1 month
performancedatabasemongodb-drivermongodbhigh-performance
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