Sophie Saskin
Software Engineer at MongoDB
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSophie Saskin is a software engineer with 9 years of experience, currently contributing to MongoDB’s Atlas team from New York. She brings deep backend and database expertise, having contributed directly to the core mongodb/mongo project—fixing memory overflow risks, improving index bounds logic, and adding explain-time allowDiskUse support. Her background includes work on the Node.js driver as an intern and teaching and research roles at Brown University, reflecting strong foundations in CS and mentorship. Comfortable debugging subtle production issues, she has proven skill in both systems-level reasoning and practical developer tooling. Outside core engineering, Sophie’s earlier roles in education and media hint at an ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and design user-focused solutions.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Brown UniversityHigh School Diploma, Advanced Designation through the Arts; Visual Arts, High School Diploma, Advanced Designation through the Arts; Visual Arts at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School
English, Italian
Github Skills (11)
databases10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
mongodb10
nosql10
mongodb-database10
database10
database-optimization9
optimization9
optimisation9
query-optimization9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
The MongoDB Database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:9 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sophie contributed to the MongoDB database project by addressing several critical issues. Their work included preventing potential overflow issues in memory usage computations for `$lookup` operations. They also added the `allowDiskUse()` function to explain cursors in the shell and improved the index bounds building logic for queries using the `$type` operator. Additionally, they fixed an infinite loop issue in the granularity rounding for infinity values.
nosqlc-plus-plusmongodb-databasedatabasemongodb
junkilee/image_saver
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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