Valeri Karpov

Co-Founder

Miami Beach, Florida, United States18 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20 years of experience in software engineering.
Maintainer of Mongoose with 5M+ downloads/week.
Founder of Mongoose Studio for MongoDB developers.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused engineering leader with deep expertise in Node.js and MongoDB.

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Skills

Core Skills

Node.jsMongodb

Other Skills

JavaScriptGolangBoost C++PythonRuby on RailsjQueryPrototype.jsGoogle MapsMySQLCouchDBUbuntuBashJavaAndroid DevelopmentAndroid SDK

About

I'm a results-driven engineering leader with nearly 20 years of experience building and scaling software from pre-seed startups to post-IPO organizations. I specialize in Node.js and MongoDB, and I'm best known as the long-time maintainer of Mongoose, the most widely used database framework in the Node.js ecosystem (5M+ downloads/week). I’m also the founder of Mongoose Studio, a modern, schema-aware MongoDB GUI and dashboarding layer designed for Node.js developers. My work focuses on improving developer productivity, reducing operational friction, and helping teams ship faster while maintaining strong data contracts. Beyond open source, I’ve led teams across backend, frontend, and infrastructure, delivering complex applications through clear communication, cross-functional collaboration, and a strong product mindset. I’m a prolific contributor to projects in JavaScript, Go, Rust, and C, including work in the Temporal ecosystem and distributed database tooling for Cassandra / DataStax Astra.

Experience

Meanit software

Founder & CEO

May 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 11 mos · Miami Beach, Florida, United States

Dev shop focusing on custom data integrations and full stack web applications. Working on Mongoose.js and Mongoose Studio.

Node.jsMongoDBJavaScript

Booster fuels

Principal Engineer

Mar 2016 – May 2021 · 5 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Mongodb

Software Engineer

Aug 2013 – Mar 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Greater New York City Area

Split time between:
Kernel Tools Team, responsible for developing MongoDB's internal CI tool Evergreen, and ancillary tools shipped with the MongoDB server like mongoimport and mongoexport.
Drivers Team, maintainer of the Mongoose ODM and a core contributor to the Node.js and Golang drivers.
Education Team, produced a course on the MEAN stack for EdX, an online courseware platform run by Harvard and MIT.

MongoDBNode.jsGolang