Ryan Timmons
Staff Software Engineer at MongoDB
Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Timmons is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, large-scale systems, currently driving engineering efforts at MongoDB from Hoboken, NJ. He has a solid background in backend development and test automation, having contributed to core MongoDB projects including the mongo-cxx-driver and the main MongoDB repo where he improved example code, change stream behavior, and integrated a hang analyzer into test infrastructure. Prior roles at Betterment, Amazon, and Linksys reflect experience across fintech, e-commerce, and networking products, and he started his career teaching computer science at the University of Washington. Known for blending hands-on debugging and test engineering, he focuses on shipping robust, well-documented features that improve developer experience. An underappreciated strength is his attention to test harnesses and diagnostics—work that quietly raises system reliability for thousands of users. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Washington.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Washington
Github Skills (15)
databases10
javascript10
c-language10
aggregations10
database-driver10
cprogramming-language10
database-testing10
mongodb10
mongodb-database10
database10
test-automation10
bson9
cpp8
c178
python8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo
Mar 2018 - Feb 2021
The MongoDB Database
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:79 commits, 25 pushes, 1 comment in 3 years
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to enhancing the testing infrastructure of the MongoDB project. Their commits introduced integration of the hang analyzer tool within the assertion functions like `assert.soon`, `assert.retry`, and `assert.time`. The changes also involved adding tests for the hang analyzer and integrating it into various test scenarios, thereby improving the robustness of the test suite. Furthermore, the user modified the rollback test fixture and initial sync tests, demonstrating their focus on overall system reliability and test coverage.
nosqlc-plus-plusmongodb-databasedatabasemongodb
mongodb/mongo-cxx-driver
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
C++ Driver for MongoDB
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the C++ driver for MongoDB by adding and modifying example code within the `examples/mongocxx/mongodb.com` directory. They added examples for aggregation, `runCommand`, and index operations. Further contributions focused on improving and correcting change stream functionality, alongside bug fixes. These changes demonstrate a focus on enhancing the driver's capabilities and example documentation.
drivernosqlc-plus-plus-17cppbson
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