Daniel Hill

Staff Engineer at MongoDB

United States

About

Daniel Hill is an expert in computing performance. Previously a leader of performance engineering at Intel, where he did performance design, evaluation, analysis, and tuning. He presented at conferences including Google NEXT and AWS. Previously among the top performance experts at CollegeNET, Intel cloud/AI/mobile, he has delivered industry-leading performance for a variety of products. He has also created widely used performance tools, methodologies, and visualizations, including PerfSpect, visual ELF, and pioneered hardware counter observability in the cloud. His work has saved the industry over US$1B.

Experience

  • MongoDB (Full-time · 2 yrs 6 mos)
    • Staff Engineer
      Aug 2025 - Present · 11 mos

      Drove 50% performance gains in v8.3

    • Senior Product Performance Engineer
      Jan 2024 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Drove +40% performance gains in v8.0 release

  • Cloud Performance Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
    Jun 2021 - Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos

    - Maintained open source observability tools which identify bottlenecks and optimize workload performance - Optimized workloads in public cloud to fully utilize latest hardware optimizations

  • Software Engineer at CollegeNET
    Feb 2020 - Apr 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

    - Migrated legacy software to Java Spring Boot - Developed analytics and simulations crucial to colleges navigating Covid-19 - Implemented customer facing asynchronous video interviewing solution

  • Intel Corporation (Greater Phoenix Area)
    • AI Software Engineer
      Dec 2018 - Feb 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

      - Maintained AI performance simulation software - Head of DevOps: Automated testing environment - Mentored interns

    • Real Time Software Engineer
      Jan 2018 - Dec 2018 · 1 yr

      - Led the design and writing of a modular benchmarking test suite for Intel architecture. Now used by multiple teams. - Developed Linux, Windows, and vxWorks drivers implementing OS agnostic cache allocation technology

  • Cooperative Robotic Systems Lab Researcher at Arizona State University
    Jan 2017 - Dec 2017 · 1 yr

    - Developed dynamic localization communication between robots and Microsoft HoloLens with the goal of improving human and robot interaction and safety