I’m A. Jesse Jiryu Davis, a senior staff engineer at MongoDB doing research at MongoDB Labs. I live and climb in New Paltz, NY.

Here’s my speaking schedule.

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 from 2011-2018.

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.

Writing:

• eXtreme Modelling in Practice, VLDB 2020.
• 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 do portraits, mainly of Lower East Siders, residents of transitional housing, and American Buddhists.

Religion:

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

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, @jessejiryudavis@mas.to.

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