About

My name is Kristina Chodorow and this is my personal website. It’s mostly a blog about technical or geeky topics.

I’m CTO and cofounder of Ldgr and I live in New York City with my wonderful husband, Andrew.

This site is mostly out-of-date, and an issue with moving WordPress providers at one point removed all of the images. Sorry!

Programming

I am currently working on building a universal schema for business data. We’re hiring! If you’re an engineer and you’d be interested in solving meaningful and interesting engineering problems, let me know.

MongoDB

I’ve done a lot of work on MongoDB’s replication system and other internals. I wrote the PHP driver, which is now maintained by Derick and Hannes. I also used to maintain the Perl driver, which is now handled by Mike Friedman.

Games

I’ve programmed a couple of games that you can find here.

Writing

I wrote MongoDB: the Definitive Guide (O’Reilly) with Mike Dirolf and Scaling MongoDB. I’m always open to new and interesting writing projects.

Speaking

I’ve given talks at conferences and meetups worldwide, including OSCON, FOSDEM, Latinoware, YAPC::NA, and MongoSF. I’m not giving talks anymore.

Contact

You can find me on Twitter or Github. My email is k dot chodorow at gmail dot com. My username is kchodorow on basically everything.

Even more about me

Some posts I’ve written about me/my life (in order posted):

• Setting the Kitchen on Fire
• My First Public Speaking Gig
• An Interesting Trip to DC
• Going to Belgium for FOSDEM
• Buying a Manhattan Co-op
• Writing MongoDB: The Definitive Guide
• How I Became a Programmer
• Getting Married