Yuta Arai
Lead Engineer at MongoDB
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYuta Arai is a Lead Engineer at MongoDB with 11 years of software engineering experience and a continuous career at MongoDB progressing from intern to lead since 2017. Based in San Francisco, he blends deep backend and platform expertise with practical product sensibilities gained through repeated promotions inside a single, high-scale database company. A Brown University computer science graduate, he has roots in front-end work and student tech leadership—experience that helps him bridge UX, tooling, and systems reliability. Known for mentoring and driving engineering execution, he focuses on shipping robust, scalable features while maintaining operational quality. A less obvious strength is his longevity within one codebase, which gives him rare institutional knowledge useful for architectural decisions and cross-team coordination.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Brown UniversityHomestead High School
English, Japanese
Github Skills (13)
mongodb10
nosql10
mongodb-database10
database10
mongodb-stitch8
mongodb-realm7
realm5
nodejs5
stitch4
instagram4
javascript3
cli3
sdk3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yarai/swap
Mar 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
yarai/cs1300-development
Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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