About

I’m A. Jesse Jiryu Davis, a Senior Staff Research Engineer in MongoDB’s Distributed Systems Research Group. I live and climb in New Paltz, NY.

Here’s my speaking schedule.

Past Projects:

MongoDB Serverless.
The Server Discovery and Monitoring Spec that governs how all MongoDB drivers connect to MongoDB server clusters.
libbson and libmongoc, the MongoDB C Driver libraries.
Motor: A full-featured non-blocking MongoDB driver for Tornado.
PyMongo: I helped maintain the standard MongoDB driver for Python.

Contributions:

The queue implementation and an optimization to getaddrinfo in asyncio in the Python standard library.
Locks and queues for the Python Tornado async framework.
A bugfix to Python’s threading module.
Concurrent getaddrinfo in Python on BSD.
VLDB 2024 program committee.

Writing:

eXtreme Modelling in Practice, VLDB 2020: how to check that a TLA+ specification matches a C++ implementation.
Co-author with Guido van Rossum of the “Web Crawler With asyncio Coroutines” chapter in 500 Lines or Less, the fourth book in the Architecture of Open Source Applications series.
Contributor to The Definitive Guide to MongoDB.
Contributor to Lion’s Roar: “5 Ways to Get into the Meditation Habit”, “Ordinary Zen”, “If Siddhartha Didn’t Leave Home”, “Steve Jobs”.
LWN.net Linux Weekly News: “Assembling the history of Unix”.
RedHat’s OpenSource.com: “Grok the GIL: How to write fast and thread-safe Python”, “How to avoid humiliating newcomers: A guide for advanced developers”.

Photography:

I’ve done portraits of transitional housing residents, climbers, and American Zen Buddhists.

Religion:

I’m a Zen student at the Village Zendo and New Paltz Zen Center. I’m a secular Jew.

Training:

I got a BA in Computer Science from Oberlin College, took photo classes at The International Center for Photography, and lived for a year at Yokoji Zen Mountain Center.

Contact Me:

Unless you’re a recruiter.

Email jesse@emptysquare.net or jesse@mongodb.com.

@jessejiryudavis on Twitter, ajdavis on GitHub, emptysquare on Flickr.

I look like this:

Color photo of a tanned, middle-aged Jew with a short graying beard and buzz cut hair, and gray-blue eyes. He’s dramatically lit from the side with a black background, and he gazes resolutely into the distance like he’s planning to climb a mountain or something.