Nolan Lum
Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNolan Lum is a senior software engineer with 16 years of experience focused on backend development, infrastructure, and systems engineering, currently building at MongoDB in the San Francisco Bay Area. He brings deep systems-level intuition—demonstrated by contributions to the Parrot Virtual Machine where he fixed bugs, refactored core packfile code, and expanded VM APIs—alongside production engineering at scale from roles at Lyft and internships at Google and Riot. Comfortable navigating complex codebases and merging upstream updates, he pairs pragmatic problem solving with a strong emphasis on reliability and test coverage. Although he jokes about being "not very good at words," his steady track record shows an engineer who prefers shipping robust solutions over flashy prose.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkeley
English, Japanese
Github Skills (9)
c1710
parrot10
virtual-machine10
api10
c1110
apidoc10
refactor9
testing9
refactoring9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
parrot/parrot
Dec 2010 - Nov 2011
Parrot Virtual Machine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:58 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Nolan primarily contributed to the Parrot Virtual Machine project by fixing bugs and improving code coverage for the String PMC. They also participated in merging updates from the main repository. Additionally, the user refactored packfile core files and added new API functions. The user's work shows a strong understanding of the VM's internals, as well as an ability to manage project updates.
parrotvirtual-machine
nolanlum/pshuu
Apr 2016 - Aug 2022
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
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