Zakhar Kleyman
Team Lead, Build at MongoDB
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZakhar Kleyman is a Team Lead for Build at MongoDB with 11+ years of experience managing large-scale CI/CD infrastructure, packaging and cross-platform release pipelines across diverse architectures and OSes. He combines hands-on DevOps and build engineering—maintaining a 1500+ server fleet and packaging for rpm/deb/msi/homebrew—with team leadership and pre/post-sales technical acumen gained supporting Fortune‑500 clients. At MongoDB he has contributed to high-profile open-source projects like the mongodb/mongo repo, focusing on build, packaging and CI automation, and optimized Evergreen CI’s database indexes to improve performance. Bilingual in English and Russian, he’s known for rapid technical learning, strong troubleshooting, and pragmatic disaster/recovery planning. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex platform requirements into reliable, auditable release processes.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology (Technical University)
English, Russian
Github Skills (22)
docker10
packaging10
build-system10
schema-design10
indexing10
dockers10
cicd10
mongodb-database10
automation10
indexer10
database-design10
db-schema10
database-schema10
automations10
schema10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo
Jun 2016 - Nov 2022
The MongoDB Database
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer / Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer / Automation EngineerContributions:124 commits, 6 PRs, 50 pushes in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Zakhar primarily contributed to the repository's build and packaging infrastructure. Their commits focused on modifying build scripts, package tests, and CI/CD configurations to support various operating systems, architectures, and new Debian versions. The user also made changes to the container registry login process, showing an active role in maintaining and improving the automated build and deployment pipelines. Their work also included updating the project's logging and signing infrastructure.
nosqlc-plus-plusmongodb-databasedatabasemongodb
evergreen-ci/evergreen
Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
A Distributed Continuous Integration System from MongoDB
Role in this project:Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:3 reviews, 9 commits, 5 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Zakhar's contributions primarily focused on database schema management within the Evergreen CI system. They added, updated, and dropped indexes on various collections within the MongoDB database used by Evergreen. This included adding indexes to support new features, optimizing query performance, and modifying existing indexes. The changes suggest a focus on ensuring efficient data access and retrieval within the system.
continuouscontinuous-integrationsystem-integrationmongodbdistributed
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