Rebecca Weinberger
Software Engineer at Benchling
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRebecca Weinberger is a software engineer with a decade of experience building backend systems and developer-facing tooling, currently contributing to Benchling from New York. She combines rigorous academic training from MIT with hands-on production work on high-profile open-source projects like the official MongoDB Node.js driver, where she improved cursor behavior, testing, and API deprecations. Her background spans cloud-native extensions (custom AWS Lambda deployment frameworks), secure Java REST services, and performance tooling, reflecting a focus on reliable, observable systems. Notably, she has bridged research and practice—investigating data decay at MIT CSAIL while shipping pragmatic engineering solutions in industry.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School, High School at Hathaway Brown School
English, French, Japanese
Github Skills (12)
databases10
nodejs10
javascript10
mongodb10
database10
mongodb-database10
testing9
aggregations8
documentation8
apidoc7
api-design7
api7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/node-mongodb-native
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
The official MongoDB Node.js driver
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:20 commits, 31 PRs, 78 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Rebecca primarily focused on improving the MongoDB Node.js driver. Their contributions included implementing and refining cursor methods, specifically forEach and hasNext, and addressing issues related to cursor behavior and collation. The user also corrected documentation and added tests, demonstrating a strong understanding of the driver's core functionality and its interaction with MongoDB. They implemented new count API, deprecating the old one and adding new methods.
nosqlnode-jsnode-mongodbnode-librarynodejs
benchling/app-examples-python
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
A public catalog of Benchling App examples written in Python.
Contributions:8 reviews, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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