Tim Fogarty
Director Of Engineering at MongoDB
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTim Fogarty is a Director of Engineering based in New York with 12 years of experience building resilient distributed systems and developer tools, currently leading MongoDB’s Cluster-to-Cluster Sync team responsible for Atlas Live Migrate, Mongosync, Mongomirror, and the Database Tools. He combines hands-on backend engineering—contributing core fixes and features to the official mongo-go-driver and mongo-tools—with people leadership, growing and mentoring teams, hiring and creating onboarding processes that scaled a team from startup pace to steady delivery. Tim’s background in developer advocacy and community-building (Major League Hacking, conference talks, hackathons) gives him a knack for translating developer needs into product direction and practical tooling. Notably, his open-source work includes robustness and compression fixes to the Go driver and usability improvements to mongoexport/mongorestore, reflecting a focus on performance, maintainability, and real-world migrations.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Natural Sciences, Bachelor's Degree Natural Sciences at University of Nottingham
English
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Github Skills (27)
package-management10
go-language10
databases10
mongodb-database10
homebrew10
go10
driver10
zlib10
golang10
mongodb10
database10
testing9
command-line-interface9
command-line9
database-design9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo-tools
Aug 2019 - Nov 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:191 reviews, 183 commits, 237 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the `mongodb/mongo-tools` repository, specifically focusing on enhancing the `mongoexport` and `mongorestore` tools. Their work involved refactoring code, renaming types, and modifying option descriptions to improve usability. They also implemented features such as the `--useArrayIndexFields` flag and addressed issues related to timeseries and geoHaystack collections, as well as the handling of database resharding.
mongodb/homebrew-brew
Oct 2020 - Nov 2022
The Official MongoDB Software Homebrew Tap
Role in this project:Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:5 commits, 10 PRs, 2 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Tim's contributions primarily involved updating the MongoDB database tools within the Homebrew tap. They consistently modified the `Formula/mongodb-database-tools.rb` file, changing the download URLs and SHA256 checksums to reflect new versions of the tools. This suggests a focus on maintaining and ensuring the availability of the MongoDB database tools for users of the Homebrew package manager. The updates involved several version bumps and changes to the install location.
homebrewhomebrew-tapmongodb
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