Iris H
Software Engineer 2 at Self-Employed
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIris H is a Software Engineer 2 at MongoDB with five years of hands-on experience building backend systems, improving driver performance, and contributing to the widely used PyMongo project by adding type hints and clearer error messaging. A Cal Poly MS and BS graduate with near-perfect GPAs, she combines strong theoretical foundations in algorithms and compilers with practical engineering—her internship work boosted Python driver performance by up to 134%. She has a proven track record designing data pipelines and tooling (Go, Flask, Neo4j, Trino) and mentoring others as a teaching associate and private tutor. Beyond shipping features, she cares about developer experience and maintainability, evident from type-focused contributions to open source and detailed project handoffs. Based in Los Angeles, she brings curiosity-driven problem solving that began with a "Hello World" and now scales to production-quality systems.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Grover Cleveland Charter High SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.981, Academic Excellence, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.981, Academic Excellence at Cal Poly Engineering
Chinese, English, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
typehinting10
type-checking10
python-lib10
mongodb10
python10
mongodb-database10
pymongo10
bson8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo-python-driver
Jun 2023 - Apr 2025
PyMongo - the Official MongoDB Python driver
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:274 reviews, 191 PRs, 92 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Iris primarily contributed to the PyMongo driver by improving error messages related to boolean options and adding type hints to various Python files. They also modified core files like `server.py`, `helpers.py`, `aggregation.py`, and `client_options.py`, adding types and fixing potential type-related issues. Additionally, the user has contributed to documentation with the addition of contributors.
python-librarypython-driverpythonpython-mongodbmongodb-driver
sleepyStick/mongo-python-driver
Jun 2023 - Apr 2025
PyMongo - the Official MongoDB Python driver
Contributions:671 pushes, 173 branches in 1 year 9 months
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