Alex Kleiman is a software engineering intern on the kernel team at MongoDB, where he's working on pluggable storage engines. He was attracted to MongoDB's open-source nature and exciting product development, and enjoys the challenge of his role. As an intern, he spends most of his day coding and participates in team meetings. Despite the demands of his project, which requires writing code specific to one goal, Kleiman finds it fulfilling. In his free time, he enjoys reading books and listening to music, particularly rap albums like Illmatic by Nas. He values work-life balance and would love to finish his project and incorporate Berkeley DB as a storage engine in MongoDB during his internship.