Jawwad Asghar
Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolJawwad Asghar is a Senior Software Engineer based in the New York City area with over a decade of engineering experience and three years focused on performance at MongoDB. He brings deep embedded C++ expertise from GE Transportation/Wabtec, where he led control-system platforms, reduced startup times significantly, and improved on-time delivery by over 20% through hands-on incident resolution and root-cause analysis. Comfortable leading cross-functional teams and daily Agile scrums, he has shepherded a consolidated baseline used for multi-customer releases and managed teams of 10+ engineers. Trained as a mechanical engineer at Cornell, he blends systems thinking, lab-to-software transition skills, and practical tooling experience (including Matlab automation) to bridge hardware and software domains. Notably, his career path reflects a shift from mechanical and systems roles into performance-focused software engineering, giving him a rare full-system perspective on reliability and optimization.
3 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University
English, French
Github Skills (11)
mongodb10
nosql10
mongodb-database10
database10
javascript9
mongoose9
faunadb8
nodejs6
adaptation3
mongodb-driver2
python2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/genny
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
🧞♀️ Grants 3 wishes. As long as those wishes are to generate load 🧞♂️
Contributions:40 reviews, 14 commits, 11 PRs in 2 months
javascriptgrantslongwishes
mongodb-labs/YCSB
Mar 2023 - Sep 2023
This Repository is NOT a supported MongoDB product
Contributions:4 reviews in 6 months
faunadbsupportednodejsmongoosemongodb
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.