Sam Kleinman
Software Engineer at tychoish, inc.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Kleinman is a software engineer with 17 years of experience focused on developer productivity—build systems, test infrastructure, distributed systems, and tooling—to help teams write better code with fewer distractions. He has driven reliability and automation at scale, from contributing to MongoDB’s Evergreen CI and core server release tooling to improving developer workflows at Neon, Coder, and Interchain. An active open-source contributor, Sam has enhanced notable projects like the Hugo static site generator and the official MongoDB Go driver, adding YAML support, new decoding interfaces, and robustness improvements. He blends deep Go back-end expertise with practical platform and CI/CD experience, often tackling thorny edge cases such as nil-context handling and panic recovery. Based in New York, he pairs technical leadership roles with hands-on implementation and a background in technical writing that helps him produce clear APIs and developer-focused docs. Notably, his work consistently favors pragmatic abstractions that reduce cognitive load for other engineers.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Metro High SchoolBA Psychology Women's and Gender Studies, BA Psychology Women's and Gender Studies at Beloit College
Github Skills (26)
python10
go-language10
static-site-generator10
testing10
databases10
mongodb-database10
taskwarrior10
go10
driver10
bson10
yaml10
golang10
mongodb10
database10
api-design9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
evergreen-ci/evergreen
Nov 2016 - May 2020
A Distributed Continuous Integration System from MongoDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:736 commits, 1283 PRs, 1293 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Sam's commits primarily focused on fixing and improving the codebase, particularly within the "agent" and "cli" directories. They were involved in fixing failing tests, improving code structure, and adding functionalities such as panic handlers to the agent code. The contributions seem to enhance the reliability, and efficiency of the CI/CD system, aligning with a focus on the backend infrastructure.
continuouscontinuous-integrationsystem-integrationmongodbdistributed
mongodb/mongo-go-driver
Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
The Official Golang driver for MongoDB
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 20 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sam contributed to the MongoDB Go driver by implementing features and fixing bugs. Key contributions include supporting nil contexts in the `Next` method for cursors and adding a `Name` method to the collection type. They also implemented a `Zeroer` interface for custom struct types and a `Decoder` interface to improve BSON decoding. Furthermore, the user refactored package names.
golanggolang-librarydriverdatabasemongodb-driver
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