Rea Rustagi
Research Assistant at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRea Rustagi is a multidisciplinary researcher and technical communicator with five years of experience bridging applied mathematics, earth sciences, and developer-facing documentation. Currently a Research Assistant at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a former technical writer at MongoDB, Rea has authored tutorials and docs across languages and frameworks while contributing code to the popular mongodb/laravel-mongodb repository. Their background includes atmospheric and ocean science research at Princeton and Lamont-Doherty, where they applied machine learning to geochemical reconstructions and studied extreme rainfall dynamics. At Columbia they combined rigorous quantitative training with humanities breadth, serving as a math TA and co-editing an undergraduate literary journal. Comfortable toggling between code, technical prose, and scientific analysis, Rea also brings mentoring and public-speaking experience from conference presentations and internal education initiatives.
4 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Applied Mathematics, Minor in Religion, Bachelor of Science, Applied Mathematics, Minor in Religion at Columbia UniversityMaster of Science, Public Health - Environmental Health, Master of Science, Public Health - Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Hindi, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
php10
orm10
query-builder10
laravel10
mongodb10
eloquent10
mongodb-database10
laravel-mix10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/laravel-mongodb
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
A MongoDB based Eloquent model and Query builder for Laravel (Moloquent)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:202 reviews, 81 PRs, 44 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Rea's primary contribution involved modifying code related to read operations and implementing functionalities for features like text search, array matching, and schema versioning within the MongoDB-based Laravel framework. They also added examples demonstrating the usage of query builder, covering insert, update, and delete operations. Further work includes adjusting the code base for version updates, and also fixing merge conflicts from the existing code base.
querymongophpbuildermoloquent
rustagir/docs-mongoid
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:127 pushes, 39 branches in 6 months
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