Jordi Torrens
Staff Software Engineer at MongoDB
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolJordi Torrens is a Staff Software Engineer based in Barcelona with five years of professional software experience and a background in telecommunications and electrical engineering. He has progressed through engineering roles at HP into senior and staff positions at MongoDB, where he contributes directly to core database internals and sharding architecture. His GitHub work shows hands-on changes to MongoDB's codebase—schema (IDL) updates, parameter management, storage/indexing design, and cluster operations—demonstrating deep expertise in back-end and database engineering. Jordi blends systems-level thinking from his R&D firmware past with production-grade distributed database development today. Colleagues can rely on him for tackling complex data model and storage challenges that sit at the heart of scalable databases. He pairs academic training from UPC and a KTH master's thesis in communication networks with practical, impactful open-source contributions to a flagship database project.
5 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's thesis in Electrical Engineering Electrical Engineering - Lab of Communication Networks (LCN), Master's thesis in Electrical Engineering Electrical Engineering - Lab of Communication Networks (LCN) at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyEngineer's degree Telecommunications Engineering, Engineer's degree Telecommunications Engineering at UPC - ETSETB TelecomBCN
English, Catalan, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
databases10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
mongodb10
sharding10
idl10
database-design10
mongodb-database10
database10
data-structure9
datastructures-algorithms9
algorithm9
data-structures9
algorithms9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
The MongoDB Database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:222 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jordi's contributions primarily involve modifications to the MongoDB database codebase. Their commits reflect a focus on core database functionality, including changes related to schema definitions (IDL files), and management of database parameters, alongside other code-level enhancements. Several commits point to the maintenance of the sharding architecture, with significant involvement in areas such as the database's internal data model, the architecture of data storage and indexing, and the design of cluster operations. The user demonstrates expertise in working with the core building blocks of the MongoDB database.
nosqlc-plus-plusmongodb-databasedatabasemongodb
jordist/genny
Nov 2021 - Jul 2022
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Contributions:1 PR, 2 branches in 8 months
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