Kristina Chodorow
Founder CTO at Invoice Butler
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKristina Chodorow is a founder and CTO with 16 years of engineering experience building distributed systems, databases, and developer tooling from first principles. She was a founding engineer at MongoDB where she authored replication code, language drivers, and technical documentation, later helping open-source Google’s Bazel while improving its external dependency and build rule handling. At GV she applied engineering and machine learning to evaluate startups, and today she leads Invoice Butler as Founder/CTO, combining product sensibility with hands-on execution. Her open-source contributions span critical build ecosystems—improving Bazel and Bazel rules for Rust and Go—and low-level database resilience work in TokuMX, reflecting deep systems and release-engineering expertise. Known for fixing subtle CI, symlink, and runfile issues, she brings a reputation for making complex infrastructure reliable and reproducible. Based in New York, she holds a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from NYU and blends academic rigor with pragmatic, production-focused engineering.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA Mathematics and Computer Science, BA Mathematics and Computer Science at New York University
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Github Skills (42)
c-language10
databases10
build-system10
cicd10
mongodb-database10
automation10
go10
bazel-rules10
bazel10
golang10
automations10
build-process10
rust10
cprogramming-language10
replication10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
bazelbuild/bazel
Feb 2015 - Aug 2017
a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Build Engineer
Back-end Developer & Build EngineerContributions:479 commits, 27 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kristina primarily contributed to the build system (Bazel) of the repository, focusing on extending functionality related to external dependencies. The user added and improved build rules for external libraries like commons-lang and jsch. They addressed issues related to handling symlinks, file permissions, and library versions. Additionally, they improved error messages and fixed integration issues.
build-systembazelcorrectscalablemulti-language
bazel-contrib/rules_go
Jan 2016 - Jan 2017
Go rules for Bazel
Role in this project:Back-end & Automation Engineer
Back-end & Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 7 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Kristina contributed to the Go rules for Bazel project by addressing multiple areas. They refactored and updated the rules to ensure compatibility with new Bazel versions and execution root changes, which involved significant changes to the build and symlink generation processes. The user also added core features, such as adding an error message for the gazelle tool and fixing import paths to ensure proper functionality of the Go rules within the Bazel build system, improving usability and stability. Furthermore, they added license headers to the Go source files.
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