Kyle Kloberdanz
Senior Software Engineer at Ditto
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Kloberdanz is a seasoned software engineer with 10 years of experience building high-performance systems in C, Rust, Python, Go, and C++, and deep expertise in SQL databases. He has led engineering efforts from founding a startup to shipping distributed database features and cloud architectures, and recently contributed to MongoDB’s official C and C++ drivers—fixing platform builds, improving aggregation examples, and hardening encryption-related operations. Kyle’s background spans low-latency HFT systems, HPC and bioinformatics pipelines, and secure MPC/cryptography work in Rust, reflecting a rare blend of systems-level performance tuning and applied machine learning. He’s comfortable owning production incidents, mentoring teams, and driving architecture decisions, and has demonstrated an ability to reverse-engineer legacy binaries and squeeze 50x performance gains out of database-like workloads. Based in Des Moines, IA, he combines startup grit with enterprise rigor and a track record of open-source impact on widely used database client libraries.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Iowa
English, German
Github Skills (24)
c-language10
nosql10
c1110
mongodb-database10
c1710
aggregation-framework10
database-driver10
mongodb-driver10
bson10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
mongodb10
testing9
admin9
database-administration9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo-cxx-driver
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
C++ Driver for MongoDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:104 reviews, 9 commits, 155 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kyle's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the C++ MongoDB driver. They implemented new features related to the handling of Flexible Encryption (FLE) 2, including updates to `CreateCollection` and `Drop` operations. The user also added examples and tests demonstrating the use of snapshot queries, a critical feature for data consistency and integrity within the MongoDB environment. Furthermore, the user performed formatting updates to maintain code style consistency throughout the project.
drivernosqlc-plus-plus-17cppbson
mongodb/mongo-c-driver
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
The Official MongoDB driver for C language
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:116 reviews, 6 commits, 62 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kyle contributed to the MongoDB C Driver by addressing build issues on macOS related to deprecated functions and suppressing unused variable warnings. Their work included adding a new snapshot query example and renaming/refactoring existing examples. These changes involved modifying and adding test code related to MongoDB's aggregation pipeline functionality and snapshot sessions.
drivernosqldatabasemongodb-drivermongodb
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