Kriti Ravindran
Software Engineer at Facebook
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKriti Ravindran is a Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of hands-on experience building reliable backend systems and developer tools. A University of Waterloo Honors Computer Science graduate with an HCI specialization and economics minor, she blends user-centered thinking with strong systems-level engineering. At Facebook she delivers production services while contributing to open-source infrastructure—most notably stabilizing the official MongoDB Go driver by fixing RTT calculations, cursor handling, retryable writes, and error paths. Her background spans fintech and payments at Mastercard, cloud-native testing and deployment, and early entrepreneurial hardware work building VR-ready gaming desktops. Comfortable across languages and stacks, she brings a pragmatic focus on correctness and resilience in distributed systems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Honors Computer Science (co-op), Bachelors, Honors Computer Science (co-op) at University of Waterloo
English, French
Github Skills (12)
golang10
go10
driver10
mongodb10
go-language10
mongodb-database10
database9
admin9
database-administration9
error-handling9
databases9
testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo-go-driver
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
The Official Golang driver for MongoDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 18 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kriti primarily contributed to the Go driver for MongoDB by fixing bugs, adding new features, and improving the overall functionality of the driver. Their work included resolving calculation issues related to average RTT, adding checks for closed cursors in the `Next` method, and modifying the `All` function to accept an interface. The user also addressed retryable write functionality and made improvements to error handling. This work indicates a focus on the core functionality and stability of the driver.
golanggolang-librarydriverdatabasemongodb-driver
KritiRav/hello-world
Nov 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
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