Asya Kamsky
Principal Engineer, Office Of The CTO at MongoDB, Inc
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAsya Kamsky is a Principal Engineer in the Office of the CTO at MongoDB with 14+ years of hands-on experience spanning databases, data warehousing, scientific computing, and computer graphics. She thrives in user-facing technical roles—combining developer advocacy, product management, and solutions architecture—to turn complex database challenges into practical, production-ready outcomes. Her deep focus on NoSQL and contributions to high-performance storage engines (notably work on TokuMX’s benchRun authentication and reliability) underline a rare blend of low-level systems expertise and customer-facing impact. Comfortable splitting time between New York and San Francisco, she brings a traveler’s curiosity to technology and a history of building and supporting data systems from prototype to release.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Graphics, MS Computer Graphics at New York UniversityA.B. Computer Science, A.B. Computer Science at Cornell University
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Github Skills (33)
c-language10
nosql10
databases10
mongodb-database10
aggregation-framework10
mongodb-query10
cprogramming-language10
mongodb10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
javascript9
benchmark9
authentication9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Tokutek/mongo
Jan 2013 - Feb 2013
TokuMX is a high-performance, concurrent, compressing, drop-in replacement engine for MongoDB | Issue tracker: https://tokutek.atlassian.net/browse/MX/ |
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 9 days
Contributions summary:Asya primarily contributed to the `benchRun` functionality within the TokuMX database engine. Their work focused on enhancing the authentication process, specifically adding the necessary code to authenticate to the "admin" database when running benchmarks with authentication enabled. The user fixed a password storage error and ensured correct credentials for `benchRun` threads, improving the overall functionality and reliability of the benchmark testing. They also addressed server stats access when credentials are provided.
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mongodb-labs/socialite
Jul 2014 - Aug 2018
Social Data Reference Architecture - This Repository is NOT a supported MongoDB product
Contributions:14 commits, 5 pushes, 3 comments in 4 years 2 months
mongodbjavareference-architecturesocial-data
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