Robert Stam
Software Engineer at MongoDB
Flowery Branch, Georgia, United States
Summary
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RockstarRobert Stam is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience and a long career at MongoDB, where he contributes to core driver development and specification documentation. His background spans back to foundational engineering roles at Attachmate and DoubleClick and an architect role in healthcare technology, demonstrating comfort with both legacy systems and modern distributed datastores. At MongoDB he has improved build and testing infrastructure for the official C# driver and clarified GridFS specifications, showing a blend of hands-on backend development and technical writing. Based in Flowery Branch, Georgia, he brings deep practical knowledge of databases, package publishing, and API consistency, with a knack for improving developer-facing docs and test plans that many users never see but rely on.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (15)
net10
nuget10
asp-net10
code-standards10
dotnet10
csharp10
gridfs10
web-standards10
linq10
documentation10
dotnet-core10
standard-library10
mongodb-database9
testing9
mongodb9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo-csharp-driver
Aug 2010 - Jan 2023
The Official C# .NET Driver for MongoDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 releases, 1609 reviews, 1328 commits in 12 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily worked on migrating the build process for NuGet packages from .nuspec files to .csproj files. They were also responsible for updating the DnsClient library version, adding additional tests and improving the existing testing infrastructure. The user also made several code changes related to handling array data, updating existing filters, and improvements to the $dateToString operator.
dotnetnosqlcsharp-libraryfaunadbcsharp
mongodb/specifications
Sep 2015 - Jan 2020
Specifications related to MongoDB
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:16 reviews, 32 commits, 7 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Robert's contributions primarily involve the modification and expansion of the GridFS specification documentation within the `mongodb/specifications` repository. The commits add new sections, such as "Version and Changes", update the "Last Modified" date, and introduce clarifications about the GridFS API and functionality. Furthermore, the user improves the specification by addressing key aspects like causal consistency and updating the test plans.
specificationsmongodb
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