Lyublena Antova

MongoDB | Databases | Query Optimization

Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria

About

Experience

  • Staff Software Engineer at MongoDB
    Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

  • Relocation at Career Break
    May 2024 - Dec 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos

    Relocated across the pond. Bonding time with family. Travel.

  • Senior Staff Software Engineer at Meta
    Feb 2022 - Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    Tech Lead for the Presto Query Optimizer, part of Meta's Data Infrastructure org. Work on History-based optimization for Presto published at VLDB: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol17/p4077-shankhdhar.pdf

  • Research Scientist at Datometry
    Apr 2015 - Feb 2022 · 6 yrs 11 mos

    Founding engineer at Datometry. Unifying SQL dialects through a novel database virtualization platform for real-time query translation and query optimization. Helped hire a team of Software Engineers, interns etc. Work resulted in various patents and publications in SIGMOD etc.

  • Software Engineer, Query Processing at Pivotal Software, Inc.
    Apr 2013 - Apr 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Founding engineer of Orca - a modern query optimizer for big data. Pivotal was a spin off from EMC and VMware