Kyle Suarez
Director Of Query Execution, North America at MongoDB
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Suarez is a seasoned database engineer and leader with 13 years of experience, currently directing Query Execution for North America at MongoDB. He combines deep C/C++ systems expertise with performance engineering—contributing to core MongoDB server code, the C driver’s GridFS features, and benchmark tooling like mongo-perf—to optimize query and aggregation performance at scale. His background includes low-latency systems work at Two Sigma and hands-on roles across engineering, docs, and performance testing, giving him a rare blend of practical implementation and clear technical communication. Based in New York, he’s notable for turning nuanced edge cases into robust product fixes and for staying actively involved in open-source improvements that directly impact production reliability.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick
Github Skills (21)
gridfs10
nosql10
databases10
query-optimization10
c1110
mongodb-database10
performance-testing10
c1710
aggregation-framework10
mongodb-driver10
cplus10
cpp10
mongodb10
database10
wiredtiger9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo
Oct 2015 - Sep 2022
The MongoDB Database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:267 commits, 9 PRs, 187 pushes in 7 years
Contributions summary:Kyle contributed to the MongoDB database project by addressing several server-side issues, primarily focusing on core database functionalities. Their commits demonstrate a focus on fixing bugs and improving the existing codebase. Key contributions include removing unsigned comparisons, enabling replica sets, and disabling oplog scans in the SBE build variant. Further work includes addressing query plan shapes and fixing an issue related to bytes calculation.
nosqlc-plus-plusmongodb-databasedatabasemongodb
mongodb/mongo-perf
Nov 2016 - Jun 2018
performance tools for mongodb
Role in this project:Performance Engineer
Performance EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 9 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Kyle focused on developing and testing performance tools for MongoDB. Their commits primarily involve adding and modifying test cases for queries and aggregations within the `mongo-perf` repository. These changes include the addition of new tests, modification of existing tests, and the addition of features for document validation and $geoNear stage. The user's contributions aimed to benchmark and optimize MongoDB's query and aggregation performance.
performance-toolsperformancemongodb
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