Sue Kerschbaumer
Director Of Platform Engineering
Monterey, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSue Kerschbaumer is a platform-focused engineering leader with 17 years of hands-on experience building and stabilizing high-scale systems while optimizing cost and operational risk. She has driven major platform modernizations and monolith-to-microservices migrations at companies like Postscript and Ro, delivering 10x throughput improvements and 30% cost reductions while securing multi-million dollar vendor savings. Comfortable translating technical tradeoffs for executives, she specializes in infrastructure right-sizing, observability, and creating foundations that enable AI-native development without increasing fragility. A former technical writer and contributor to the MongoDB docs project, she blends deep engineering craft with clear communication and a knack for simplifying complex, high-stakes situations. Based in the NYC area, Sue is often brought in to de-risk thorny platforms and scale teams with pragmatic decision-making and trusted engineering judgment.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree English Language and Literature General, Bachelor's degree English Language and Literature General at Smith College
Github Skills (6)
rs10
restructuredtext10
documentation10
mongodb-database9
mongodb9
build-automation7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/docs
Nov 2017 - Jun 2020
The MongoDB Documentation Project Source.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:35 commits, 27 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Sue's contributions primarily involve modifying and creating documentation files within the MongoDB documentation project. Their work encompasses updating existing documentation related to secure stores on Windows and Mac, incorporating options for certificate selectors, and adding a new file for build processes. These changes reflect an effort to improve the documentation's clarity and completeness, ensuring it accurately reflects the latest features and configurations for the MongoDB platform.
mongodbproject-documentation
mongodb/docs_build_test
Feb 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:230 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
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