Jonathan Ma
Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Ma is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building cloud-scale database and Atlas platform features at MongoDB. He combines backend expertise—contributing to the official MongoDB Java driver around BSON/UUID handling, ChangeStream support, and read-concern semantics—with full-stack product work shipping high-impact features used by tens of thousands of customers. A Duke CS alum with roots in theater, he brings both technical rigor and a design-minded, user-focused perspective to engineering. Known for reducing complexity and shipping well-tested systems, he has a track record of accelerating delivery across frontend and backend stacks and contributing to prominent open-source database tooling.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Duke UniversityInternational Baccalaureate Diploma, High School Diploma, 4.000, International Baccalaureate Diploma, High School Diploma, 4.000 at Wilson High School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
javas10
databases10
mongodb10
bson10
java10
mongodb-database10
database10
uuid9
kotlin8
scala7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo-java-driver
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
The official MongoDB drivers for Java, Kotlin, and Scala
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
Contributions summary:Jonathan contributed to the core functionality of the MongoDB Java driver. Their work included extending the `MongoClient` interface and adding support for the "available" read concern level. Further contributions involved allowing the creation of `BsonBinary` instances from UUIDs, enhancing the driver's handling of binary data. They also made adjustments to the `ChangeStreamDocument` class to support dropDatabase and rename operation types.
nosqljava-libraryjvmkotlinjava
thejonathanma/mongo-java-driver
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
The Java driver for MongoDB
Contributions:15 PRs, 32 pushes, 18 branches in 1 month
mongodb-driverjavamongodb
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