Ribhav Jain
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRibhav Jain is a Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of experience building high-performance backend systems across companies like Netflix, Square, and MongoDB. He specializes in database and query engine optimization, with notable open-source contributions to the core MongoDB repo that improved pipeline processing, regex matching, and boolean operator support. Based in New York, he has progressed from intern roles to senior engineering at Netflix, demonstrating rapid growth in production systems and distributed data services. Ribhav combines a computer engineering background from UIUC with practical business insight, shown by a minor in business and cross-functional impact at product-driven organizations. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who focuses on measurable performance gains rather than cosmetic changes. He’s equally comfortable diving into low-level query grammar fixes as he is shaping scalable backend features for large consumer platforms.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering Minor in Business, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering Minor in Business at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Hindi, English
Github Skills (11)
databases10
query-optimization10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
mongodb10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
mongodb-database10
database10
nosql9
regular-expression9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo
Jul 2020 - Jan 2022
The MongoDB Database
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Ribhav's contributions primarily involve modifying and optimizing the MongoDB database's internal pipeline processing logic. This includes reverting a redundant sort operation, implementing a skip function within the grammar, and adding support for boolean expression operators. The user also worked on code related to regex matching within the query engine, improving query performance. These changes suggest a focus on enhancing the database's query processing capabilities and overall performance.
nosqlc-plus-plusmongodb-databasedatabasemongodb
ribhavjain/ribhavjain.github.io
May 2018 - Mar 2024
Contributions:145 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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