Samantha Ritter
Software Engineering Consultant at Minor Planet Consulting, LLC
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamantha Ritter is a software engineering consultant with 14 years of experience building robust systems in C, C++ and systems-level software, and a BSE in Computer Science from Princeton. She spent six years at MongoDB contributing to core drivers (C, C++ and Ruby), improving BSON handling, authentication URI parsing, server selection and GridFS support—work that directly impacts a widely used open-source database ecosystem. Now leading consulting engagements from New York, she combines deep backend expertise with systems engineering rigor to solve performance and correctness challenges. Colleagues rely on her for pragmatic refactors that reduce edge-case bugs and for adding subtle protocol-aware features that improve client reliability.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BSE, Computer Science, BSE, Computer Science at Princeton University
English, French
Github Skills (15)
c1710
testing10
c-language10
mongodb-driver10
database-driver10
cpp10
c1110
cprogramming-language10
gridfs10
mongodb10
nosql10
cplus10
bson10
mongodb-database10
ruby10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo-cxx-driver
Jul 2014 - Mar 2021
C++ Driver for MongoDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:80 reviews, 147 commits, 82 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Samantha primarily focused on improving the C++ driver for MongoDB. Their contributions included resolving an issue related to iterating over invalid BSON objects and fixing issues related to how count options take and apply hints. The user also added a hint class to the codebase for improved query performance. These changes reflect a focus on improving the driver's functionality and performance.
drivernosqlc-plus-plus-17cppbson
mongodb/mongo-c-driver
Oct 2014 - Mar 2021
The Official MongoDB driver for C language
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 99 reviews, 81 commits in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Samantha primarily worked on the C driver for MongoDB, contributing significantly to the `mongoc-uri.c` file. The user added functionality to handle authentication mechanism properties within the URI, including adding a new parsing function. Further modifications included fixing capitalization for tests and refactoring server selection methods, and networking code.
drivernosqldatabasemongodb-drivermongodb
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