Isabela Freire
Strategic Finance Lead
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIsabela Freire is a Strategic Sales Finance Manager with nine years of experience aligning go-to-market strategy and topline performance across finance, sales, product, and operations for high-growth tech and education organizations. Currently at Confluent after leading strategic finance for Customer Engineering and Cloud at MongoDB, she blends rigorous quantitative training from Stanford and FGV with hands-on product-facing finance that informs pricing, GTM motions, and operational scalability. Unusually for a finance leader, she contributes code to MongoDB’s Rust and C driver repositories—working on BSON encoding/decoding, driver options, and tests—bringing a rare combination of backend engineering fluency and financial strategy. Based in New York, she has a track record of translating complex technical and business requirements into clear, auditable plans that drive revenue and product adoption.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Economics and Finance, Master's degree Economics and Finance at FGV - Fundação Getulio VargasPontifical Catholic University of Rio de JaneiroMaster's degree Quantitative Research - Education Policy, Master's degree Quantitative Research - Education Policy at Stanford University
Spanish, English, Portuguese
Github Skills (22)
pdf-document10
nosql10
testing10
databases10
data-serialization10
database-administration10
c1110
mongodb-database10
serialization10
c1710
deserialization10
mongodb-driver10
bson10
database-management10
rust10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo-rust-driver
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
The official MongoDB Rust Driver
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 1189 reviews, 110 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Isabela's commits primarily focused on enhancing the official MongoDB Rust Driver. The contributions involved adding an "allowDiskUse" option to the find command and supporting an "authorizedDatabases" option. Furthermore, the user improved invalid URI option error messages and added several tests to ensure that the code was running correctly. The changes span multiple source files and involve alterations to various options and implementation of the new features.
drivermongodbrustmongodb-drivercargo
mongodb/bson-rust
Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
Encoding and decoding support for BSON in Rust
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 239 reviews, 34 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Isabela primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `bson-rust` repository, focusing on implementing new features and fixing bugs related to encoding, decoding, and data representation within the BSON format. Their work included adding support for deserializing and serializing new BSON types such as Undefined, MinKey, MaxKey, and DBPointer. Furthermore, the user addressed clippy lint errors and refactored the codebase by moving document encoding and decoding functions to the Document namespace, enhancing overall code quality.
bsonrustjsonmongodbserialization
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