Her Story: WDB Consulting

In the final installment of our series highlighting women who founded companies that run on MongoDB, we're featuring, Danielle Da Silva Monteiro, Co-Founder of WDB Consulting.

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1. Tell us about your journey to founding WDB Consulting.

I've been working with databases for 18 years, and I love it! Data modeling, quality, and data governance are my favorite subjects. WDB Consulting was born from a conversation between me and Sulamita Dantas, with the goal of sharing the rising demands for us to offer consulting and training opportunities.

2. Tell us about a challenge you faced as a woman on your journey to founding WDB Consulting.

It's not easy being a woman in technology. We're often questioned on our knowledge and experience, and at times evaluated differently than others due to our perceived gender. But I believe this will change. So I participate in various community events, and whenever possible, WDB Consulting sponsors events focused on fostering inclusion in our industry.

3. What is the next step for you and WDB Consulting?

WDB Consulting wants to dominate the world! Our next steps are to expand our database training classes to every state in Brazil, to increase the amount of consulting we offer, and to talk about technology around the world. Next stop: MongoDB World!

4. How is has MongoDB changed the way you work?

For many years I have worked with relational databases. Working with MongoDB has expanded the way I think about and approach data, offering flexible ways to model data and analyze information. Thanks to MongoDB, I'm a more versatile and a much more complete DBA today.

5. Any advice to share for women who want to follow in your footsteps?

I have many tips for women who want to be DBAs, and I'm excited to be able to share them:

  • Do not give up! Even when everything seems very complicated, persist.
  • Participate in events in your community. They will help you meet other professionals and gain new knowledge.
  • Learn how to model your data. It does not matter if you are a developer or DBA! "Data modeling is life", and it helps you not to make wrong decisions.
  • Teach what you know! Shared knowledge is knowledge multiplied.
  • You do not have to know everything and you do not always get it right. To err is part and does not make you a bad professional.
  • Support other women! You can make a difference in your community, in your city, in your country, and around the world.
  • Add me to your social networks :) It will be a pleasure to connect with you!
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Throughout 2023, MongoDB has recognized the exceptional successes our APAC and North America customers realize when they build with MongoDB Atlas. Today, we are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 EMEA MongoDB Innovation Awards. These customers join a premiere group of organizations that have been recognized for boldly exploring the power of data and harnessing it to build the applications of tomorrow. The professionals behind these innovative projects span industries, use cases, and geographies. However, what remains constant is each organization's unfailing commitment to delivering deeper insights, powerful features, and capabilities, as well as seamless experiences, to their customers. We congratulate each of the EMEA MongoDB Innovation Award winners for delivering big results and invite you to find inspiration in their work below. Building the Next Big Thing Since being originally founded in Finland as a food delivery service, Wolt expanded their offering into groceries, gifts, and other items, and makes it possible for people living in hundreds of cities across 25 countries to get whatever they need, delivered quickly and reliably to their front door. Due to the rapidly increasing scale in their business and new partnerships with enterprise retailers, Wolt needed to rethink their existing tooling that is used by their tens of thousands of merchant partners to manage their offering inside Wolt’s delivery platform. To provide their merchants with multi-venue management capabilities, increased automation, and no limitations on amounts of menu items, Wolt chose fully-managed MongoDB Atlas due to its flexible data document model, support for Kafka and event-driven architectures, high performance, and limitless scalability. Industry Transformation Gong ’s Revenue Intelligence Platform uses proprietary AI technology to enable revenue teams to utilize customer interactions to increase business efficiency, improve decision-making, and accelerate revenue growth. Gong chose MongoDB Atlas as a high-performing transactional database due to its ability to handle Gong’s complex data structures and algorithms, and indeed MongoDB Atlas was able to support 30-40 million daily interactions and mission-critical search queries. Through the adoption of MongoDB Atlas, Gong’s queries take only 20-30 milliseconds, and with Atlas’ sharding capabilities, Gong future-proofed its environment for ongoing growth and gained greater control over its customer data. Innovative Leadership in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion As part of its "Inclusion for All" strategy, Vodafone is committed to ensuring our digital society is accessible to all, and that women feel empowered to participate in it. In addition, Vodafone’s mission is to have 40% of women in management roles by 2030. Earlier this year, Vodafone UK teamed up with MongoDB to host interactive sessions and networking for “Digital & IT Women in Tech Week.” With a shared goal of reducing the gender gap in technology and inspiring young women to build their careers by pursuing leadership roles, the week’s events brought together more than 200 Vodafone employees to discuss breaking workplace biases and enhancing gender equality in the industry. In addition, Vodafone spoke at the 2023 MongoDB.local London event in the IDEA Lounge. Inspiring Innovation Ernst & Young LLP (EY) manages high volumes of transactional data and its clients and internal teams work under strict timelines to file taxes and meet regulatory deadlines. Their cloud-based Global VAT Reporting Tool (GVRT) platform automates and digitizes the preparation of 242 different types of returns across 79 countries. With support from MongoDB Professional Services, EY planned and executed a data migration from their previous database solution to MongoDB Atlas so that the GVRT tool could fully benefit from MongoDB’s developer data platform. Since migrating to Atlas, EY experienced a significant performance boost, they reduced costs by as much as 50%, and they are able to scale without limitations to handle increased data volumes, transactional loads, and concurrent user requests during peak periods. Find out Who Uses MongoDB and read more about our customers’ MongoDB Atlas successes.

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