This is the personal site of A. Jesse Jiryu Davis, a Senior Staff Research Engineer in MongoDB’s Distributed Systems Research Group. Rather than a product or service, the site collects his writing across three distinct threads: distributed systems and database engineering, Zen Buddhist practice, and documentary photography.
The technical content includes conference recaps such as notes from ISSRE 2026, commentary on research agendas for data agents, and essays on conformance testing multiple specifications across programming languages. These posts reflect his hands-on work on MongoDB, the MongoDB C Driver, PyMongo, asyncio, Python, and Tornado, as well as his authorship of Motor, the async MongoDB Python driver.
Beyond engineering, the site features photography series like Crag Portraits, documenting friends climbing in the Gunks, and essays on Zen topics such as the legend of Huineng and the role of ambition in practice. The author studied at the International Center for Photography and is a senior Zen student at the Village Zendo and New Paltz Zen Center.
The site offers an articles feed, podcast, and about page, making it easy to follow new writing. It suits software engineers, database researchers, and readers interested in the intersection of technology, contemplative practice, and visual storytelling. Those seeking quick tutorials may find the material essayistic rather than instructional.
Overall, it is a thoughtfully curated personal archive where systems research
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