Daniel Gottlieb
Senior Staff Engineer at Viam
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Gottlieb is a Senior Staff Engineer with 16 years building and hardening distributed databases and cloud services, now based in New York. He has deep, practical expertise in transaction processing, replication, and storage engine integration from long tenure at MongoDB where he led critical releases, mentored engineers, and authored core server and backup algorithms. His open-source contributions include impactful fixes and internals work in flagship projects like the MongoDB server, the WiredTiger storage engine, and the official MongoDB Java driver, reflecting a focus on correctness, performance, and tooling around GridFS and indexing. Known as a technical troubleshooter and communicator, he translates dense concurrency and isolation problems into digestible solutions and customer-facing advisories. Collected training in physics and computer science underpins his methodical approach to systems design and debugging.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Physics and Computer Science, BS Physics and Computer Science at Rutgers University
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Github Skills (23)
c-language10
gridfs10
nosql10
wiredtiger10
testing10
databases10
c1110
java10
mongodb-database10
c1710
javas10
timestamping10
error-handling10
cprogramming-language10
mongodb10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo
Mar 2016 - Jan 2023
The MongoDB Database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:1 review, 494 commits, 1 PR in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the MongoDB database project by removing unused code related to bugprone-unused-raii in various test files. The commits indicate a focus on improving the quality of the codebase by cleaning up test files, including those for the client and catalog. This user also made changes to the code related to the core of MongoDB, specifically on indexing and the internal features.
mongodb-databasec-plus-plusdatabasemongodbnosql
wiredtiger/wiredtiger
Jul 2018 - Aug 2021
WiredTiger's source tree
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 reviews, 6 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributes to the WiredTiger database project, focusing on enhancing error logging, exposing session query timestamp methods, and adding a read_once configuration to cursors. Their work involves modifications to core database functionalities like timestamp querying, cursor behavior, and internal error handling. The contributions span across multiple source files, demonstrating a good understanding of the database internals and its configuration.
wiredtiger
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