Timo Geusch
Principal Application Engineer
West Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolTimo Geusch is a Principal Application Engineer and polyglot software veteran with over two decades of deep experience in high-performance, low-latency systems, distributed computing, and database modernization. Currently helping customers modernize legacy stacks at MongoDB, he blends hands-on C++ and Java expertise with leadership in building high-performing consulting teams and pragmatic development processes. His background spans trading systems, performance engineering, and cross-language integrations (C++, Java, Go, Erlang), and he has a track record of squeezing out measurable performance and memory gains in production systems. Timo is as comfortable mentoring teams and shaping release cadence as he is diving into JNI bridges or redesigning data access layers, and he pairs an economist’s analytical bent with a tinkerer’s enthusiasm for cars and motorcycles. Notably, he has repeatedly converted long release cycles into frequent delivery rhythms and led complex migrations from legacy tools to modern SCM and CI practices.
9 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
Economics, Economics at The Open UniversityGymnasium ÜberlingenComputer Science, Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
English, German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
dll9
debugging9
java9
sane9
operator-overloading9
windows9
memory-management9
development-environment9
visual-studio9
emacs9
documented9
pointer9
babashka9
boost9
defaults8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
geuscht-m/monger
Dec 2017 - Dec 2019
Monger is an idiomatic Clojure MongoDB driver for a more civilized age: with sane defaults, batteries included, well documented, very fast
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
idiomaticbatteries-includedagedriverdocumented
geuscht-m/mongo-aggregate-loginfo
Nov 2019 - Mar 2022
Simple script to parse out aggregation pipeline stats from one or more mongod logfiles
Contributions:51 commits, 6 PRs, 25 pushes in 2 years 4 months
mongodpipelineaggregationsingerstats
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