Matt Dale
Software Engineer at mongodb
Tenino, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarMatt Dale is a software engineer with 11 years of experience who contributes to core developer tooling as a Go driver engineer for MongoDB. Based in Tenino, Washington, he focuses on backend systems and improves data correctness—recently enhancing BSON/JSON decoding to properly handle Unicode surrogate pairs in the official mongo-go-driver. His work includes thorough test coverage to ensure robust parsing across edge-case strings, reflecting a detail-oriented approach to interoperability and data integrity. Colleagues can expect pragmatic, production-minded contributions that quietly strengthen mission-critical database drivers.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (15)
json10
go10
bson10
unicode10
routes9
ruby-on-rails9
unit-testing9
recursion6
url-routing6
amazon-dynamodb6
struct6
loops6
concurrency6
yaml6
ruby6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo-go-driver
May 2021 - Jan 2023
The Official Golang driver for MongoDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 1524 reviews, 155 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Matt focused on improving the handling of unicode surrogate pairs within the BSON decoder. This primarily involved enhancing the `json_scanner.go` file by correctly unmarshalling and handling these pairs in the `UnmarshalExtJSON` function. Furthermore, they added various tests within `unmarshal_test.go` and `json_scanner_test.go` to ensure the correct parsing of these characters across different scenarios. This work aimed to improve the stability and correctness of BSON parsing for a wider range of unicode strings.
golanggolang-librarydriverdatabasemongodb-driver
matthewdale/matthewrdale.com
Apr 2018 - Dec 2020
Source code for my personal homepage, matthewrdale.com
Contributions:6 PRs, 30 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 8 months
personal-homepage
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