Eliot Horowitz
CEO & Founder at Rodeph Sholom School
New York, New York, United States
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Eliot Horowitz is a founder and engineering leader with 18 years of experience building database-driven platforms and developer-facing products, currently CEO of Viam, an engineering platform for the physical world. He co-founded MongoDB and served 13 years as CTO, driving core database engineering, drivers and performance tooling that helped make MongoDB a ubiquitous open-source database. Hands-on across languages from C to Python, his open-source contributions include critical reliability and performance work on PyMongo, MongoDB drivers, connectors and the TokuMX engine. Based in New York, he pairs startup-scale vision with deep systems-level technical expertise and a pragmatic focus on stability at scale. A longtime fisherman and community trustee, he combines operational rigor with curiosity about real-world robotics and infrastructure. Rare among CEOs, he still contributes code to low-level database components while leading product and company strategy.
18 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Sc.B. Computer Science, Sc.B. Computer Science at Brown University
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javascript10
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python10
testing10
text-manipulation10
databases10
benchmarking10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Tokutek/mongo
Aug 2012 - Jan 2014
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 & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:219 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Eliot primarily contributed to the core functionality of the TokuMX (MongoDB replacement) engine by refactoring the StringData class and updating its methods. These changes involved removing deprecated methods and adding new ones to match std::string. Furthermore, the user integrated these StringData improvements into the bson library and the database layer. This work involved modifying various files related to bson and database operations.
mongodb
10gen-archive/mongo-c-driver-legacy
Aug 2009 - Oct 2009
C Driver for MongoDB
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Eliot appears to be working on the core functionality of a C driver for MongoDB. Their initial commits involve setting up basic project files, including header and source files, and defining structures for managing connections. Subsequent commits demonstrate the implementation of core features by introducing BSON handling and building out supporting methods. The user implemented BSON serialization and deserialization to encode and decode MongoDB documents, as well as supporting functions for inserting documents and querying the database.
drivermongodb
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