Nick Larew
Lead Engineer - Education AI
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolNick Larew is a product-minded Lead Engineer on MongoDB’s Education AI team with a decade of experience building developer-facing documentation, sample apps, and AI-driven learning experiences. He combines deep technical chops in generative AI and information systems with a strong user advocacy background—having authored and maintained MongoDB docs used by thousands and contributed to the flagship mongodb/docs repository. At MongoDB he focuses on using generative models to personalize documentation and accelerate content creation, translating research and data into practical product improvements. Outside of work he channels the same attention to craft into playing clarinet, running, and local-first software experiments, reflecting a blend of technical rigor and human-centered curiosity.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Management Information Systems, Bachelor's Degree Management Information Systems at Purdue UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at West Lafayette Jr/Sr High School
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Github Skills (6)
mongodb10
mongodb-database10
documentation10
technical-writing10
aggregation-framework8
json-schema7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/docs
May 2017 - Jan 2019
The MongoDB Documentation Project Source.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:31 commits, 20 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the documentation of the MongoDB project. Their work focused on clarifying features related to date aggregation operators, timezone handling, change streams, session timeouts, and the profiler/logging. They made updates to JSON schema validation keywords as well, indicating a broad contribution to the documentation.
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nlarew/docs-realm
Oct 2019 - Jun 2023
Realm documentation migration
Contributions:644 pushes, 491 branches in 3 years 9 months
realmmigration
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