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Inside MongoDB Dublin: The Heart of Our International Growth
February 27, 2026
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Inside MongoDB Dublin: The Heart of Our International Growth
Nestled between the Irish Sea and the Wicklow Mountains, MongoDB’s Dublin office brings together people from around the world. It’s a place where you can build a meaningful career, contribute to leading global products, and feel part of a close-knit community. Located in Ballsbridge just south of Dublin city center, the office is a short walk from the Lansdowne DART station and is well-served by multiple bus routes, making it easy to plug into everything the city has to offer.
MongoDB is a Glassdoor Best-Led Company of 2025
2025 has been a big year for MongoDB. With MongoDB 8.2, our most feature-rich and performant release yet, we are raising the bar for what developers can achieve. Voyage AI ’s embedding models and rerankers are bringing state-of-the-art accuracy and efficiency to building trustworthy, reliable AI applications. And we’ve launched the MongoDB Application Modernization Platform , or AMP. Today, MongoDB serves nearly 60,000 organizations across every industry and vertical, including more than 70% of the Fortune 100 and cutting-edge AI-native startups. On top of these exciting updates, we’re now pleased to announce that MongoDB is among the winners of the annual Glassdoor list of Best-Led Companies in 2025. This list highlights the top 50 companies with more than 1,000 employees whose leaders have been recognized as some of the best. For us, this is not just an external badge of honor—it’s a reflection of the trust and inspiration that MongoDB employees experience every day. What makes this award so meaningful is that it’s driven entirely by employee feedback. Unlike other workplace awards, there is no self-nomination or application process. To determine the winners, Glassdoor evaluates company reviews shared by current and former employees over the past year. That means every comment, rating, and personal experience shapes the final outcome. At MongoDB, leadership isn’t limited to titles—it’s how we work. Guided by our values and Leadership Commitment , we push ourselves to think big, act with ownership, and build trust every day. This recognition is proof that our approach is more than words on a page—it’s shaping a culture where people are inspired to grow, innovate, and win together. Our leaders are not only setting strategy and steering the business; they are building an environment where people feel empowered to take risks, to challenge the status quo, and to achieve more than they thought possible. Hear more from our employees “I joined MongoDB as the Executive Assistant to our CEO, Dev Ittycheria . During my time working with Dev, I saw firsthand the transparent nature of our leadership team. Though they are focused on the market opportunity in front of us and ensuring MongoDB is set up for long-term success, it does not come at the expense of our people. It was a privilege to support the CEO and work closely with his leadership team who lead with our company values and focus on our people in everything they do.” - Ava Thompson, Executive Support “In my time here, I've been fortunate to see and drive change at the individual level, but also see leadership acknowledge and push innovation at the top, underlining the value we place on continuously improving the way we do things at all levels.” - Charles Shim, FP&A “Every quarter, I have honest conversations with leaders about whether I achieved the goals I set and why. My leaders here help me map out a career path, suggest opportunities I hadn’t considered, and provide feedback on how to align my personal goals with my professional growth. Because of that, I feel I’m growing in every way.” - Jin SEO, Customer Success “MongoDB is a hybrid company. Like many of our engineers, I work outside the company headquarters in New York City. I appreciate MongoDB’s approach to hybrid working and that the company leadership cares about the well-being of their employees. It seems there are companies that don’t seem to trust their employees to make decisions, such as which days to come into the office, so I’m thankful for the autonomy I receive at MongoDB to work in a way that’s best for me.” - Andrew Whitaker, Engineering At MongoDB, we continuously strive to deliver great results for our customers, live our values in everything we do, and demonstrate our leadership principles every day. Because we're not just building next-generation technology – we’re building the next generation of leaders, too. Visit our careers site to learn more about how you can transform your career at MongoDB.
MongoDB Engineering: Expanding Our Presence in Greater Toronto
Toronto has long been recognized as one of North America's fastest-growing tech hubs , boasting a diverse, world-class talent pool and a vibrant startup culture. As MongoDB continues to expand globally, Toronto stands out as a strategic location to drive engineering excellence, foster innovation, and cultivate a collaborative culture. We're currently hiring for three key product areas in the greater Toronto area: Identity and Access Management (IAM), Atlas Stream Processing, and Atlas Search. At MongoDB, our engineers are empowered to solve complex problems, take ownership of their work, and collaborate with world-class colleagues to build the future of data. As we scale our presence in Toronto, we aim to create an environment where local engineers can grow their careers, work on cutting-edge technology, and have a meaningful impact on the products that enable organizations around the globe to build the applications of today and tomorrow. Why Toronto? "Toronto is well known as one of the largest tech hubs in North America. We're constantly looking to attract the most talented engineers to work with, and are really excited about expanding into Toronto, which has previously been untapped," said Kevin Rosendahl , Director of Engineering for Atlas Search and Vector Search. The decision to invest in Toronto is strategic. According to Tim Sedgwick , Vice President of Engineering for Atlas Stream Processing and App Services, "It enables us to increase engineering capacity responsibly, access high-velocity teams, and establish an innovation hub that mirrors our company’s values. We’re building a long-term hub here, and we want top engineers shaping that foundation with us." Meet the teams Identity and Access Management (IAM) The IAM team at MongoDB is responsible for managing customer identities and access to MongoDB products. "If we're doing our job well, we're making you safe and secure and not getting in your way," said Harry Wolff , Director of Engineering for Atlas IAM. "We own login, registration, SSO for other teams within MongoDB, and provide features like customer federation so large companies can securely log in with their own credentials." IAM is becoming a key differentiator in MongoDB's ability to land major enterprise customers. "We're going from a means to an end to a concrete dependency that unblocks major enterprise deals," Wolff said. "Our security bar is growing higher, and the work we do actively contributes to signing major contracts. I find that really exciting." The new team in Toronto will focus on building a new enterprise-grade information architecture. "Right now, one company could have 50-plus organizations in Atlas. We're building an umbrella layer to consolidate resources, configure access at scale, and give customers greater auditability and control," said Wolff. "We're building brand new functionality that enterprise customers are asking for." Wolff also emphasized career development and growth: "I joined MongoDB as a senior UI engineer, helped start the IAM team, and now I’m a Director. The company invests in its people, and this Toronto team will have the opportunity to grow alongside the product and make their mark." Atlas Stream Processing Atlas Stream Processing enables developers to continuously process streams of data using the MongoDB aggregation framework. It simplifies the creation of event-driven applications by eliminating the need for specialized infrastructure, allowing developers to stay within the MongoDB ecosystem. "Stream Processing is core to powering modern, event-driven applications and delivering value from streaming data," said Tim Sedgwick. "Our goal is to meet developers where they are and make it easy to build with MongoDB." The product has been generally available for just over a year, and there is a lot of exciting work on the horizon. "Some of the things we're focusing on this year include new sources and sinks, like Kinesis and Apache Iceberg, user-defined functions (UDFs), and distributed processing," Sedgwick said. "We're still early in the product lifecycle, and we're constantly learning from customers to deliver immediate impact." The Stream Processing team is around 50 people, distributed across the U.S., and now expanding into Toronto. "It's a strategic growth lever for us. We're creating a long-term innovation hub here," Sedgwick said. "Toronto engineers will be shaping the foundation of this product." Career growth is deeply embedded in the team culture. "I was the founding lead engineer in Austin for Atlas App Services. That experience of helping grow a new engineering hub was invaluable in my career. Now I lead engineering for Stream Processing," Sedgwick shared. "Joining MongoDB in Toronto could be a similar launchpad for someone else's journey." Atlas Search Atlas Search and Atlas Vector Search provide developers with built-in, relevance-based retrieval capabilities in the MongoDB database. This eliminates the need to sync data with external search engines, allowing teams to focus on building their applications. "Search at MongoDB is a fascinating place to be right now," said Kevin Rosendahl. "We're providing cutting-edge capabilities that power AI applications, large-scale systems, and we're making those tools more accessible across all MongoDB deployments." The team is distributed across major U.S. tech hubs and is now expanding into Toronto. Rosendahl explained, "We look for engineers excited about collaborating on complex, large-scale systems. The goal is to make powerful tools simple and intuitive for developers." A major focus in the coming year is on integrating capabilities from Voyage AI , a recent MongoDB acquisition. "We're bringing intelligent, AI-powered search out of the box," Rosendahl said. "And we're making sure these tools are available for developers everywhere, whether they use our managed service or deploy MongoDB on their own." Rosendahl’s own growth at MongoDB reflects the opportunities available: "I started as an individual contributor helping launch Atlas Search. I becamea lead engineer, then a staff engineer on a research team, and now I'm a Director of Engineering. MongoDB has supported my career development every step of the way." "Our engineers prioritize working together to build the right thing. That creates a culture that values collaboration, communication, and low ego," he added. "We're always looking for the next generation of leaders." Why join MongoDB? Joining MongoDB's engineering organization means becoming part of a culture rooted in trust, innovation, and impact. Our engineers are encouraged to take initiative, pursue curiosity, and help shape the future of software development. "We always look for culture adds—people who make us better, not just the same," said Harry Wolff. "Diversity of perspective and opinions is important at MongoDB ." Whether you're passionate about redefining access control, building intelligent data pipelines, or scaling AI-powered search, MongoDB offers the opportunity to work on industry-defining products alongside some of the most talented and driven people in tech. "MongoDB can be a defining moment in your career - through the unique set of challenges you’ll solve and the amazing people you’ll work with," said Sedgwick. "Above all, what makes MongoDB great is the people." Learn more about #LifeAtMongoDB and join us in building the future of data— become part of our talent community today . Visit our careers page to check out our open roles.
What I Wish I’d Known Before Becoming a Solutions Architect
My journey to becoming a solutions architect (SA) has been anything but straightforward. After working as an engineer in telecom, receiving my PhD in computer science, and spending time in the energy efficiency and finance industries, I joined MongoDB to work at the intersection of AI and data solutions, guiding enterprises to success with MongoDB’s flexible, scalable database platform. It’s a role that requires having both deep technical knowledge and business acumen, and while the nature of the SA role has evolved over time, one thing has remained constant: the need to understand people, their problems, and how the technology we use can solve them. As I reflect on my career journey, here are some key lessons I’ve learned about being an SA—and things I wish I’d known when I first started. 1. Influence comes from understanding In my earlier roles, I thought that presenting clients with a perfect technical solution was the key to success. However, I quickly learned that being a successful solutions architect requires much more than technical excellence. Instead, the solutions that you offer need to be aligned with customers’ business needs. You also need to understand the underlying challenges driving the conversation. In my role, I frequently work with clients facing complex data challenges, whether in real-time analytics, scaling operations, or AI applications. The first step is always understanding their business goals and technical pain points, which is more important than simply proposing the “best” solution. By stepping back and listening, you can not only better design a solution that addresses their needs but also gain their trust. I’ve found that the more I understand the context, the better I can guide clients through the complexities of data architecture—whether they're building on MongoDB Atlas, optimizing for performance, or leveraging our data products to drive innovation. What I wish I’d known: Influence doesn’t come from showing how much you know—it comes from showing how much you understand. Listening is your most powerful design tool. 2. Building champions drives success You can build the most scalable, secure, and elegant system in the world — but if it doesn’t align with stakeholder priorities, it will stall. In reality, architecture is rarely a purely technical exercise. Success depends on alignment with a diverse set of stakeholders, each with their own priorities. Whether you're collaborating with engineering teams, product managers, security specialists, or leadership, the key to success is to engage everyone early and often. Stakeholders are not just passive recipients of your solution; they are active participants who co-own the outcome. In many cases, your design will be shaped by their feedback, and finding a champion within the organization can make all the difference. This champion—whether from the technical side or the business side—will help advocate for your solution internally, align the team, and overcome any resistance. This is particularly important for MongoDB SAs because we’re often addressing diverse needs, from data privacy concerns to performance scalability. Building a strong internal advocate ensures that your design gains the necessary momentum and credibility within the client’s organization. What I wish I’d known: Success doesn’t come from being right—it comes from being aligned. Influence is earned through empathy, clarity, and trust. As a solutions architect, your greatest value is not just in solving technical problems—it’s in helping diverse teams pull in the same direction. And nothing accelerates that more than having a strong, trusted internal champion on your side. 3. Winning deals requires teamwork At MongoDB, we’re not just selling a product—we’re selling a solution. Winning deals involves close collaboration with Sales, Engineering, and Client Services. The most successful deals come when the entire team is aligned, from understanding the customer’s unique needs to crafting a solution that fits their long-term goals. You want to win? Here’s what that actually looks like: You prep with sales like it’s a final exam. Know the account history, know the politics, know what was promised six months ago that never landed. Be the person who connects past pain to future value. You do dry runs and anticipate the tough questions. Then you hand those questions to someone else on your team who can knock them out of the park. That’s trust. You turn strategy decks into conversations . A flashy diagram is great, but asking “Does this actually solve the headache you told us about last week?” — that’s where momentum starts. You loop in Professional Services early to pressure-test feasibility. You loop in CSMs to ask, “If we win this, what does success look like a year from now?” You help sales write the follow-up — not just with a thank-you, but with a crisp summary of what we heard, what we proposed, and what comes next. You make the path forward obvious. One of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned is that winning a deal doesn’t rely solely on delivering a flawless demo. It’s the little things that matter—anticipating questions, making quick adjustments based on client feedback, and being agile in your communication. Being part of a unified team that works seamlessly together is the key to winning deals and ensuring client success. What I wish I’d known: Winning a deal is a series of micro-decisions made together, not a solo act. Great architecture doesn’t close a deal—great alignment does. Your best asset isn’t the system you design—it’s the trust you build with your team and the confidence you project to your client that we’ve got this. Together. 4. You don’t have to know everything When I first transitioned into this role, I felt the pressure to master every piece of the tech stack—especially at MongoDB, where our solutions touch on everything from cloud data platforms to AI, real-time data processing, and beyond. It was overwhelming to think that I needed to be an expert in all of it. But here’s the truth: As a solutions architect, your real value lies not in knowing every detail, but in understanding how the pieces fit together. You don’t need to be the deepest expert in each technology—what’s important is knowing how MongoDB’s platform integrates with client needs and when to bring in the right specialists. The role is about connecting the dots, asking the right questions, and collaborating across teams. The more you embrace curiosity and rely on your colleagues, the better your solutions will be. What I wish I’d known: Mastery isn’t about knowing all the answers. It’s about knowing which questions to ask, and who to ask them to. Focus on principles, patterns, and clarity. Let go of the pressure to be the smartest person at the table—you’re there to make the table work better together. Curiosity is your compass, and collaboration is your fuel. 5. Architecture lives beyond the diagram When most people think of a solutions architect, they picture designing systems, building technical architectures, and drawing elegant diagrams. While that’s part of the job, the true value lies in how well those designs are communicated, understood, and adopted by the client. Specifically, your architecture needs to work in real-world scenarios. You’re not just drawing idealized diagrams on a whiteboard—you’re helping clients translate those ideas into actionable steps. That means clear communication, whether through shared documentation, interactive walkthroughs, or concise explanations. Understanding your client’s needs and constraints is just as important as the technical design itself. And when it comes to sizing and scaling, MongoDB’s flexibility makes it easy to adapt and grow as the business evolves. What I wish I knew: Architecture doesn’t end at the diagram—it begins there. The real value is realized in how well the design is communicated, contextualized, sized, and adopted. Use whatever format helps people get it. And before you document the system, understand the system of people and infrastructure you’re building it for. 6. It’s not just about data Data may be the foundation of my work as a solutions architect, but the real magic happens when you connect with people. Being a great architect means being a great communicator, listener, and facilitator. You’ll frequently find yourself between business leaders seeking faster insights and developers looking for the right data model. Translating these needs and building consensus is a big part of the role. The solutions we design are only valuable if they meet the diverse needs of the client’s teams. Whether it’s simplifying data operations, optimizing query performance, or enabling AI-driven insights, your ability to connect with stakeholders and address their unique challenges is key. Emotional intelligence, empathy, and collaboration are essential. What I wish I’d known: Being a great architect means being a great communicator, listener, and facilitator. Emotional intelligence is your secret weapon. The more time you invest in understanding your stakeholders’ pain points, motivations, and language, the more successful your architecture will be—because people will actually use it. 7. The job is constantly evolving and so are you The field of data architecture is rapidly evolving, and MongoDB is at the forefront of this change. From cloud migrations to AI-driven data products, the technology landscape is always shifting. As a solutions architect, you have to be adaptable and prepared for the next big change. At MongoDB, we work with cutting-edge technologies and constantly adapt to new trends, whether it’s AI, machine learning, or serverless computing. The key is to embrace change and continuously learn. The more you stay curious and open to new ideas, the more you’ll grow in your role and your ability to drive client success. As MongoDB continues to innovate, the learning curve is steep, but that’s what keeps the job exciting. What I wish I knew: You don’t “arrive” as a solutions architect—you evolve. And that evolution doesn’t stop. But everything you learn builds on itself. No effort is wasted. Every challenge adds depth. Every mistake adds clarity. The technologies may change, but the thinking compounds—and that’s what makes you valuable over the long run. It’s not just a role–it’s a journey Reflecting on my path to becoming a solutions architect at MongoDB, I realize that the journey is far from linear. From network protocols to financial systems and AI-driven data solutions, each role added a new layer to my experience. Becoming a solutions architect didn’t mean leaving behind my past—it meant integrating it into a broader perspective. At MongoDB, every day brings new challenges and opportunities. Whether you’re designing a solution for a global enterprise or helping a startup scale their data operations, the core of the job remains the same: solving problems, connecting people, and helping others succeed. And as you grow in the role, you’ll find that the most powerful thing you bring to the table isn’t just your expertise—it’s your ability to keep learning, to show up with intention, and to simplify complexity for everyone around you. To anyone stepping into this role at MongoDB: welcome. The journey is just beginning! 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The Best Solutions Architects Work at MongoDB
Announcement: As of 9/26/2025, we are refocusing the MongoDB AI Applications Program (MAAP) to instead focus on fostering and developing strategic partnerships. Please visit the MongoDB Partner ecosystem page to learn how MongoDB and our partners are helping you build modern applications. I originally wrote this article after five years of working at MongoDB. Seven years later, the post is still as accurate as the day it was published. This article highlights the broad range of technology and sales skills required to be successful as a Solutions Architect (SA) at MongoDB, skills which led me to claim (and still claim) that you have to be the best of the best to be an SA here. However, MongoDB has changed, the technology landscape has changed, the Solution Architect role has changed, and I have changed along with them. This change has been pioneered by the SA organization. Before taking a look at how SAs pioneered some of MongoDB’s evolution, let’s take a look at some of the biggest changes at MongoDB since I wrote this article: MongoDB Atlas : Atlas has become the platform by which most organizations use MongoDB for production workloads. Unified database platform: MongoDB has transitioned from a database company to a full-featured unified database platform expanding to include full-text and vector search , stream processing , and time series data, thus enabling a single platform and query language to support all required data operations to build modern applications. Generative AI: MongoDB has become the preferred way many organizations build AI applications and use AI to rapidly modernize legacy applications and eliminate technical debt. In terms of technical knowledge, MongoDB SAs now need to have a detailed understanding of everything I listed in the original article, plus: A technical understanding of all three cloud providers, cloud security, and how to securely deploy applications in Atlas. SAs are strongly encouraged to obtain or expand their cloud certifications during their MongoDB tenure. An understanding of how to build applications using all the capabilities of the unified database platform beyond the core database. An understanding of how to build AI applications using LLMs and surrounding Gen AI technologies. The MAAP reference architectures provide as much guidance to our customers as to new MongoDB SAs. It can be a lot, but it is also a great way to expand your technical expertise, grow your career, and ensure that your skills are current. One perspective I failed to capture in the original article is how the Solutions Consulting organization has been a centerpiece in driving the evolution of MongoDB. This is probably due to the unique position SAs play at the intersection of customer sales and delivery conversations, product marketing feedback, and technology. Consider MongoDB’s support for Generative AI, exemplified by the Modernization Factory and MAAP programs. The kernel of the idea that led to the Modernization Factory came from one of my colleagues. After some hard internal selling, the SA organization held a hackathon to brainstorm and conceptualize what type of application modernizations were possible with GenAI. (For those curious, the hackathon was set up as North America versus Europe with each region building 4 applications and was judged by a cross-functional team including many members of MongoDB’s executive staff, including our CEO, Dev Ittycheria. North America won) The power of the ideas generated by the hackathon led to the first Modernization Factory projects, and those successes led to the expansion of the Modernization Factory program. The genesis of the MAAP program followed a similar trajectory: internal hackathons expanding our understanding of how MongoDB could be leveraged as the platform for GenAI applications. It also produced a set of compelling customer demos that have been leveraged to expand customer understanding of the value of using MongoDB as the data platform for AI applications. This set of initial ideas and proof of concepts was then formalized by MongoDB’s product and partner teams into MAAP. The one thing that has always been constant at MongoDB is change—I’m certain that the Solutions Consulting organization will continue to play a role in pioneering it. The best solutions architects work at MongoDB Despite the bravado in the title, the purpose of this article is not to say that MongoDB Solutions Architects (SAs) are better than those working at other organizations. Rather, this article argues that the unique challenges encountered by SAs at MongoDB imply that successful MongoDB SAs are some of the best in the business. This assertion is derived from the unique challenges encountered by both supporting MongoDB customers and the MongoDB sales organization, and the breadth and depth of skills and knowledge required to be successful. To see why this is the case, let’s explore the role of an SA at MongoDB and the wide range of skills a Solutions Architect must master. A MongoDB SA (sometimes called a Sales Engineer in other organizations) is an engineer who supports the sales organization. The role is multi-faceted. A solutions architect must have: In-depth technical knowledge to both understand a customer’s technical challenges and to articulate how MongoDB addresses them Communication skills to present technical concepts in a clear and concise manner while tactfully dealing with skeptics and those more familiar with other technologies Sales skills to engage a prospect to learn their business challenges and the technical capabilities required to address those challenges Design and troubleshooting skills to assist prospects with designing solutions to complex problems and getting them back on track when things go wrong. The description above may make the MongoDB Solutions Architect role sound like other similar roles, but there are unique features of MongoDB (the product) and its competitive situation that make this role extremely challenging. We will explore this in the sections below. Technology While the strength of MongoDB and a major factor in its success has been the ease with which it can be adopted by developers, MongoDB is a complex product. Presenting MongoDB, answering questions, brainstorming designs, and helping resolve problems requires a wide range of knowledge, including: The MongoDB query language Application development with MongoDB’s drivers in 10+ different programming languages Single and multi-data center architectures for high availability Tuning MongoDB to achieve the required level of performance, read consistency, and write durability Scaling MongoDB to manage TBs of data and thousands of queries per second Estimating the size of a cluster (or the cloud deployment costs) required to meet application requirements Best practices for MongoDB schema design and how to design the best MongoDB schema for a given application MongoDB Enterprise operations tools: Ops Manager , Compass , etc. Atlas : MongoDB’s Database as a Service Offering MongoDB’s various connectors: BI/Atlas SQL , Spark , and Kafka . Migration strategies from RDBMS (and other databases) to MongoDB and Relational Migrator . This is a lot to know, and there is a lot of complexity. In addition to the core knowledge listed above, understanding the internal workings of MongoDB is essential when designing applications with high-performance and scalability requirements. Therefore, most Solutions Architects understand MongoDB’s internal architecture, such as how the WiredTiger storage engine works or how a MongoDB cluster manages connections. To make the SA role even more challenging, organizations often choose MongoDB after failing with some other technology. (Maybe their RDBMS didn’t scale, or it was too difficult to expand to handle new sources of data, or Hadoop processing did not meet real-time requirements, or some other NoSQL solution did not provide the required query expressibility and secondary indexes.) This means that MongoDB is often used for bleeding-edge applications that have never been built before. One of the roles of an SA is to understand the application requirements and help the application team come up with an initial design that will ensure their success 1 . It is probably obvious to experienced SAs, but SAs need to understand the capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses of all competing and tangential solutions as well. MongoDB’s biggest competitors are Oracle, Amazon, and Microsoft – all of whom are constantly evolving their product offerings and marketing strategies. An SA must always keep their knowledge up to date as the market evolves. Communication Being a great technologist is not enough. An SA spends at least as much time communicating with customers as they do working with technology. Communication is sometimes in the form of a standard presentation or demo, but it most often entails detailed technical conversations about how MongoDB works or how MongoDB can be used to address a particular problem. Concise technical explanations that address customer questions using language tailored to their particular situation and frame of reference are the hallmark of an SA. MongoDB SAs have to be comfortable communicating with a wide range of people, not just development teams. They must engage operations, line of business stakeholders, architects, and technology executives in sales discovery conversations and present the technical aspects of MongoDB of most concern at the appropriate level of detail. For example, an SA must be able to provide technology executives with an intuitive feel for why their development teams will be significantly more productive with MongoDB or will be able to deploy a solution that can meet scalability and performance requirements unattainable with previous technology approaches. Similarly, an SA must learn an operations team’s unique challenges related to managing MongoDB and describe how tools like Ops Manager and Atlas address these requirements. Public speaking skills are also essential. Solutions Architects deliver webinars, speak at conferences, write blog posts, and lead discussions and MongoDB User Groups (MUGs). Sales An SA is a member of the Sales organization, and “selling” is a big part of the role. Selling involves many aspects. First, SAs assist the MongoDB Account Executives with discovery and qualification. They engage the customer in conversations to understand what their current problems are, their desired solution, the business benefits of the solution, the technical capabilities required to implement this solution, and how they'll measure success. After every customer conversation, SAs work with their Account Executives to refine their understanding of the customer’s situation and identify information that they want to gather at future meetings. Once the required technical capabilities are understood, it is the SA’s role to lead the sales activities that prove to the customer that (1) MongoDB meets all their required capabilities and (2) MongoDB meets these capabilities better than competing solutions. Most of the time, this is accomplished via customer conversations, presentations, demonstrations, and design brainstorming meetings. Finally, customers sometimes want to test or validate that MongoDB will meet their technical required capabilities. This is often in the form of a proof of concept (POC) that might test MongoDB performance or scalability, the ease of managing MongoDB clusters with its operations tools, or that MongoDB’s BI Connector and Atlas SQL provide seamless connectivity with industry-standard BI Tools, such as Tableau . SAs lead these POC efforts. They work with prospects to define and document the scope and success criteria and work with the prospect during the course of a POC to ensure success. Design and troubleshooting I alluded to this in the “Technology” section: helping prospects with creative problem solving distinguishes SAs at MongoDB. Organizations will choose MongoDB if they believe they understand how it will help them succeed. Imparting this understanding (a big part of the Solutions Architect’s role) is typically done by helping an organization through some of the more thorny design challenges and implementation decisions. Organizations will choose MongoDB when they understand the framework of a good MongoDB design for their use case and believe all their design requirements will be met. Designing a solution is not a yes-or-no question that can be researched in the documentation, but rather one that is found through deep technical knowledge, careful analysis, and trade-offs among many competing requirements. The best answer is often found through a collaborative process with the customer. SAs often lead these customer discussions, research solutions to the most challenging technical problems, and help craft the resulting design. Solutions Architects are also a source of internal innovation at MongoDB. Since Solutions Architects spend a significant amount of time speaking with customers, they are the first to realize when marketing or technical material is not resonating with customers or is simply difficult to understand. The pressure of short timelines and the desire to be successful often results in innovative messaging and slides that MongoDB’s Product Marketing organization often adopts. Similar innovation often occurs with respect to MongoDB feature requests and enhancements. SAs are continually working with customers to help them solve problems, and they quickly identify areas where MongoDB’s enhancements would provide significant value. The identification of these areas and specific recommendations from SAs on what product enhancements are required have played a big role in focusing the feature set of future MongoDB releases. Project management Lastly, SAs often support a number of Account Executives and work on several dozen sales opportunities per quarter. This means that SAs are working a large number of opportunities simultaneously and must be highly organized to ensure that they are prepared for each activity and complete every follow-up item in a timely manner. It is not possible for an SA manager to track or completely understand every sales opportunity, so SAs must be self-motivated and manage all their own activities. Summary Solutions Architecture at MongoDB is a challenging and rewarding role. The wide range of technical knowledge, plus sales and communication skills required to be successful, is common to SA roles. When you combine this with the need for SAs to design innovative solutions to complex (often previously unsolvable problems), the SAs have the set of skills and the track record of success that makes them the “best” in the business. If you want to join the best, check out the open roles within Solutions Consulting at MongoDB. About the author Jay Runkel is a Distinguished Solutions Architect at MongoDB, where he has spent the past 12 years helping organizations harness the power of modern data solutions. For the past two years, he has served as the North American Technical Lead for MongoDB’s Modernization Factory program, an initiative that leverages generative AI to accelerate the transformation of legacy applications to MongoDB. Prior to joining MongoDB, Jay was a Principal Technologist at MarkLogic, where he worked with financial services, healthcare, and media companies to build operational systems for analytics and custom publishing. His career spans a wide range of technology domains, including encryption asset management, automated underwriting, product information management, and CRM solutions. Jay holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University and a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. 1 My favorite part of the job is to get locked in a conference room and whiteboard for 4 hours with a development team to brainstorm the MongoDB solution/design for a particular use case. The most valuable end product of this session is not the design, but the development’s belief that they will be successful with MongoDB and that the development process will be easier than they expected.
How Neurodiversity Shines at MongoDB
At MongoDB, we continually work to foster a workplace culture where everyone can be their authentic selves. In fact, “Embrace the Power of Differences” is one of our core company values . Our employees’ diverse experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives help give MongoDB its competitive edge and lead to continuous innovation. April is Autism Awareness Month, and across industries, organizations are putting an increased focus on neurodiversity in the workplace. Luce and Ronan—members of our Config employee resource group—open up about their experiences as part of the neurodivergent community and how it shapes their work lives. Read on to learn more about the importance of neurodiversity awareness, building an inclusive culture, and ways we can all be better colleagues and advocates. Luce: Advocating for developers and neurodiversity Luce, a Senior Developer Advocate on MongoDB’s Developer Relations team, and someone with ADHD and high-functioning autism, says she’s always had a strong connection to technology. With a deep knowledge of Microsoft and C#, Luce brings both technical expertise and a wealth of personal experience to her role. But her journey to becoming an advocate for neurodiversity was shaped by challenges she faced early in her career. “I started out as a software developer, and in some ways, the logic of coding suited my neurodiversity,” said Luce. However, she struggled with breaking tasks into manageable steps and understanding the broader impact of a single change. This led to feelings of impostor syndrome, where she often saw herself as a “beginner” despite her technical skills. What kept Luce moving forward, though, was her passion for learning and her desire to support others. She began sharing her knowledge through blog posts and tutorials, which eventually led to her becoming a Microsoft MVP—a recognition she’s received seven times—and finding a career in developer advocacy. Luce’s advice to her colleagues? “Find out how your colleagues work best and leverage that. Corporate life can sometimes be too structured, and people should be allowed to work in ways that make them feel comfortable.” For someone with ADHD like Luce, this often looks like periods of hyperfocus and intense productivity, followed by periods of distraction that appear to be an “inconsistent” working cadence. Part of MongoDB’s hybrid working approach means that employees are owners of their success and trusted to work in a way that’s best for them—here you have the flexibility to decide how you get your work done in a setting that’s most productive for you. Ronan: A problem-solver at heart Ronan, a Senior Escalation Engineer on MongoDB’s Technical Services team, has spent his career untangling complex technical issues under pressure. As part of the escalation team, his role involves solving high-stakes, challenging problems that require deep focus and problem-solving skills. But as Ronan reflects, his journey to understanding his neurodivergence wasn’t straightforward. “For a long time, I didn’t realize what made me different,” said Ronan. “I loved working on complex technical issues, but at the same time, simple tasks would leave me stressed and anxious.” It wasn’t until his niece was diagnosed with autism that Ronan started to recognize similarities between her experience and his own. After pursuing a diagnosis in 2024, he finally understood what had been holding him back for so long. Ronan has learned that his own autism means he’s a highly detailed thinker who thrives when faced with a problem to solve. However, hyperfocus—while a strength—can be overwhelming, especially when switching between tasks. Ronan admits that large Zoom calls or constant Slack pings can overstimulate him, so he prefers written communication where he can process information at his own pace. One of Ronan’s biggest lessons learned is that neurodivergence is unique to each individual. “There’s no one-size-fits-all,” he said. “Some people may have sensory needs, communication preferences, or support needs that are very different from mine. It’s important to learn what neurodivergence means for the person in front of you.” The power of Config: A place for connection Both Luce and Ronan have found a supportive community in Config, MongoDB’s Employee Resource Group (ERG) for neurodiverse employees and allies. For Luce, being one of the leads of Config is incredibly fulfilling. She’s able to interact with members, understand how neurodiversity impacts them, and offer support in tangible ways. “I set up an always-open Zoom call where members can drop by for ‘ body doubling ,’ a technique that can help boost productivity,” Luce noted. “It’s so rewarding to see how simple actions can make a big difference for someone.” Ronan also values the sense of connection that Config has given him. “It’s helped me find a place where I can share my experiences and learn from others who understand,” he says. “The leadership team is fantastic at organizing events, and I feel like I can finally talk about the challenges that I face as a neurodivergent employee without fear of being judged.” Embracing neurodivergence: What we can all learn Luce and Ronan both emphasize the importance of understanding that neurodivergence isn’t the same for everyone. As Ronan puts it, “If you’ve met one neurodivergent person, you’ve met one neurodivergent person.” Whether it’s about communication styles, sensory needs, or work preferences, the key takeaway is this: when we listen, adapt, and support one another, we create an environment where everyone can thrive. Ronan’s advice to other neurodivergent employees? “There’s nothing wrong with you. You are not broken.” For Luce, the message is clear: “If you’re struggling, you don’t have to do it alone.” Both of them remind us that support is out there, whether it’s from friends, colleagues, employee resource groups, or the neurodiverse community at large. At MongoDB, we’re committed to celebrating neurodiversity and creating a workplace where everyone’s unique strengths are recognized. By continuing to build a culture of empathy, understanding, and collaboration, we’re ensuring that everyone—neurodivergent or not—has the opportunity to shine. Learn more about employee resource groups and careers at MongoDB when you join our talent community .
Reimagining Legacy Systems with AI: Why We're Building the Future
This article was adapted from an interview with Galileo’s Chain of Thought podcast. Watch the full episode on YouTube. At MongoDB, we talk a lot about what it means to be at an inflection point—a moment where you can either maintain the status quo or redefine what's possible. For my team and for software engineers around the world, that inflection point is here. Now. Large language models (LLMs), agents, and now model context protocol (MCP) are fundamentally changing not just how we work, but what is possible with technology. So we must adapt; we have to build differently, and be faster. At MongoDB, we're creating something unique. Something smarter. We’re embracing and exploring everything that AI can do for developers. And we’re inviting the next generation of engineers to join us in shaping it. The hidden cost of legacy systems If you've spent any time in enterprise engineering, you know the challenge many organizations face: decades-old systems that are critical to a company’s operations but are held together with duct tape and wishful thinking. The developers who built them have long since moved on. The documentation is missing, outdated, or was never written. The last update was six years ago; some of the dependencies are abandoned. Whether you call it “tech debt” or “care and feeding” or “maintenance”, it consumes a huge fraction of our time and engineering budget—without a clear path forward. This is the reality many companies face—whether they’re in finance , healthcare, or the public sector—they have no choice but to pour millions of dollars into just keeping these systems afloat. Or do they? At MongoDB, we're building a new kind of engineering capability—one that combines the latest advancements in generative AI with the principles of forward-deployed engineering to help modernize legacy systems at a speed and scale that feels impossible. What is forward-deployed AI engineering? Because it’s new, you may not have heard of this role before. It's a bridge between engineering, consulting, and product development. As an AI Forward Deployed Engineer, you won’t just sit behind the scenes writing code. You'll be embedded with our customers, working side by side with their teams to solve real-world modernization challenges. No theory, just hands-on engineering at the sharpest edge of AI innovation. Your goal? Write software with AI, write software for AI, at speeds you’ve never experienced. In some tasks, we have benchmarked AI as being more than eight hundred times faster than a human being… working in that environment is, I assure you, radically different. You’ll deliver immediate, meaningful impact—whether that’s untangling a million-line code base, modernizing outdated Java frameworks, or helping teams migrate from niche, unsupported languages to modern tech stacks. MongoDB + AI: Changing the game One of the most exciting parts of our work is how AI is fundamentally changing what's possible. In the past, a modernization project like this might take five years and dozens of engineers. Today, with the power of MongoDB and AI, that same work is done in a fraction of the time—sometimes in months, sometimes in weeks—with a much smaller, highly focused team. We use LLMs and other AI tools to do things like: Add missing documentation to legacy code Write unit tests where none existed Remove outdated frameworks, replacing them with others Analyze and map massive, messy code bases Move between programming languages, frameworks, platforms, ORMs, databases, and front-end technologies. Let me be clear—none of this is easy, or on autopilot. We augment great engineers with powerful tools so they can focus on the work that matters most, so they can think big, and go far . Combining human expertise with AI capability leads to outcomes no one thought possible. Why it matters Modernizing these systems isn’t just about efficiency or cost savings—it’s mission-critical. The legacy platforms power trading systems, healthcare infrastructure, and governmental services that support real people every day. In multiple countries around the world. Being able to show them a fully functional prototype in weeks, instead of years, is game-changing. It proves what's possible. It builds momentum. It allows them to rethink how they, too, can structure teams and processes in a world where technology moves faster than ever. Why join MongoDB? If you're an engineer who thrives on autonomy, problem-solving, and building real solutions with immediate impact—and you want to work with AI every day in novel and complex ways— this is your chance. We’re looking for folks from a variety of backgrounds—software development, consulting, product engineering, or technical architecture—who are passionate about learning and applying new technologies, skilled communicators who are excited to partner with customers, and who are comfortable operating in ambiguity. As part of our Application Modernization function, you will: Work directly with customers and stakeholders Rapidly build solutions that solve meaningful business challenges Operate at the intersection of engineering, product, and consulting Learn and apply cutting-edge AI, inventing both new methodologies and technologies Be part of a small, fast-moving, high-impact team You might even write a white paper or two. You’ll also be part of a culture that values leadership at every level. At MongoDB, we believe in making it matter —and this role is designed to make change, not just for our customers, but for the software industry as a whole. If you’ve ever wanted to be part of a startup within an enterprise, this is your opportunity. We're building a new way of working — one where experimentation, agility, and ownership are at the core. Help us build what’s next At MongoDB, we’re not just modernizing applications—we’re modernizing how software is made . If that excites you, if you want to shape the future of software development alongside a team of builders, thinkers, and innovators—we’d love to hear from you. Check out our open roles and join us in redefining what's possible.
Away From the Keyboard: Kyle Lai, Software Engineer 2
In “Away From the Keyboard,” MongoDB developers discuss what they do, how they keep a healthy work-life balance, and their advice for people seeking a more holistic approach to coding. In this article, Kyle Lai describes his role as a Software Engineer 2 at MongoDB; why he’d rather not be like the characters on the TV show, Severance; and how his commute helps set boundaries between his professional and personal lives. Q: What do you do at MongoDB? Kyle: Hi! I’m an engineer on Atlas Growth 1, where we run experiments on Atlas and coordinate closely with marketing, product, design, and analytics to improve the user experience. Atlas Growth 1 is part of the broader Atlas Growth engineering teams, where we own the experimentation platform and experiment software development kit, allowing other teams to run experiments as well! The engineers on Atlas Growth are very involved with the product side of our experiments. We help the analytics team collect metrics and decide if a given experiment was a win. Sometimes, seemingly obvious positive improvements can turn out to be detrimental to the user flow, so our experimentation process allows us to learn greatly about our users, whether the experiment wins or not. Q: What does work-life balance look like for you? Kyle: Work-life balance for me means that I won’t be worrying about responding to messages or needing to open my laptop after work hours. It also means that my teammates equally respect my work-life balance and do not expect me to work during non-work hours. Q: How do you ensure you set boundaries between work and personal life? Kyle: Generally, for me, it’s more difficult to set boundaries between work and personal life when I’m working from home, so I try to come into the office most days. My commute also provides me with time to wind down and signal that work is over for the day. In a way, the drive to and from the train station allows me to transition to getting into the mindset for work or to decompress at the end of the day. Q: Has work-life balance always been a priority for you, or did you develop it later in your career? Kyle: As someone who is early in my career, work-life balance is something that I’ve grown to appreciate and see as a priority in my life. It allows me to enjoy my personal life, and definitely contributes to a healthier me and a healthier team. Q: What benefits has this balance given you in your career? Kyle: Our team has a weekly Friday hangout meeting, where we have a different question posed to us each week. One of the questions was based on the TV show, Severance. Would we choose to be “severed” like the characters in the show? They undergo a procedure that separates their work and personal brains—their work brains have no awareness of their personal lives, and vice versa. As someone who hasn’t seen the show, but has heard about it from the rest of my team, I wouldn’t do it. Balancing my work and personal lives allows me to enjoy each side more. I’m motivated for the end of the week so I can enjoy the weekend, and I’m also excited to come to work with a fresh headspace on Mondays, since I am not overworking during non-work hours. Q: What advice would you give to someone seeking to find a better balance? Kyle: I’ll sometimes have the urge to continue working past work hours, as I’ll feel like I’m about to finish whatever task I’m working on very soon or think I can get even more done if I don’t stop working. That backfires pretty quickly. You have to realize you can be easily fatigued and are not able to give your best work if you constantly keep working. A proper work-life balance will allow you to have a fresh start and a clear mind each day. As for how to better separate work and personal life, I’d suggest changing notification settings on your phone for Slack, so that non-urgent work messages won’t tempt you to open your laptop. Another strategy would be to associate some event with a cutoff for checking work things, such as not reading messages once you’ve left the office or boarded the train. I’ve had teammates tell me they delete Slack from their phones when they’re on vacation, which is a good idea! Thank you to Kyle Lai for sharing these insights! And thanks to all of you for reading. For past articles in this series, check out our interviews with: Staff Engineer, Ariel Hou Senior AI Developer Advocate, Apoorva Joshi Developer Advocate, Anaiya Raisinghani Senior Partner Marketing Manager, Rafa Liou Staff Software Engineer, Everton Agner Interested in learning more about or connecting more with MongoDB? Join our MongoDB Community to meet other community members, hear about inspiring topics, and receive the latest MongoDB news and events. And let us know if you have any questions for our future guests when it comes to building a better work-life balance as developers. Tag us on social media: @/mongodb #LoveYourDevelopers #AwayFromTheKeyboard
Away From the Keyboard: Ariel Hou, Staff Engineer
Welcome to our article series about developers and what they do when they’re not building incredible things with code and data. In “Away From the Keyboard,” MongoDB developers discuss what they do, how they keep a healthy work-life balance, and their advice for people seeking a more holistic approach to coding. In this article, Ariel Hou shares her day-to-day responsibilities as a Staff Engineer at MongoDB; how a pots-and-pans symphony helped her set boundaries while working from home; and the two rules she follows to separate work and personal time. Q: What do you do at MongoDB? Ariel: I work with the Atlas Growth Engineering teams, where our focus is on designing and implementing data-driven experiments on the Atlas product. We target metrics like customer acquisition, retention, feature discovery, etc. We not only run experiments ourselves; we also facilitate other teams in running them by creating tools and platforms, like our internal experimentation admin app and our Javascript experimentation SDK. In this role, I get to work on full-stack, cross-functional projects where sometimes the audience is Atlas users, and sometimes it's internal devs. There's a lot of variety! Q: What does work-life balance look like for you? Ariel: Generally, it means I do work during work hours, and then I don't do work when it’s not work hours. I try to enforce a physical separation as much as a mental one. Admittedly, the rise of work-from-home that came with the pandemic blurred the boundary some, and it was a bit of a tough adjustment at the beginning of the pandemic when I first started working at home. Since I was already home, there wouldn't be a clear signal that it was time to "go home"...until there was. Back then, people in Manhattan had taken to banging on pots and pans at around 6 p.m. to salute healthcare workers commuting home, and I could hear it from my apartment. That inadvertently acted as my alarm for the end of the work day! Q: How do you ensure you set boundaries between work and personal life? Ariel: The aforementioned physical boundary (for the days I go into the office). There are two other important concepts for me. First, I compartmentalize: sometimes, I will realize an important work-related thing in my off-hours, but rather than acting on it, I'll file it away for work time. The second idea, which goes hand-in-hand with the others: don't break the seal ! (AKA, don't trivially open your laptop or respond to Slack messages during off-hours.) The minute you do, the boundary is broken for the day and it becomes a slippery slope into working more. Q: Has work/life balance always been a priority for you, or did you develop it later in your career? Ariel: It was definitely not a priority in my first few years out of college. But living to work made me burnt out by 25. By the time I got to MongoDB, I understood that model wasn't sustainable, nor was it worthwhile. Thankfully, we don't have that culture here on the team. Q: What benefits has this balance given you in your career? Ariel: If you've been working for many hours straight, there's a certain point in the day where it's a struggle to progress the code or doc you're writing. You can try to push through it, but there's a high chance that the next day, after a night of sleep, you revisit the task and think, "Who wrote this garbage? Oh, heh, me." And you throw it all out and write a much nicer solution with much less effort. It's happened to me on numerous occasions. Work-life balance isn't just better for mental and physical longevity; it legitimately makes you a more effective engineer. Q: What advice would you give to someone seeking to find a better balance? Ariel: Don't break the seal! Thank you to Ariel Hou for sharing these insights! And thanks to all of you for reading. For past articles in this series, check out our interviews with: Senior AI Developer Advocate, Apoorva Joshi Developer Advocate Anaiya Raisinghani Senior Partner Marketing Manager Rafa Liou Staff Software Engineer Everton Agner Interested in learning more about or connecting more with MongoDB? Join our MongoDB Community to meet other community members, hear about inspiring topics, and receive the latest MongoDB news and events. And let us know if you have any questions for our future guests when it comes to building a better work-life balance as developers. Tag us on social media: @/mongodb #LoveYourDevelopers #AwayFromTheKeyboard
Managing MongoDB's DevOps Tools & SOA Programs
David O’Dowd joined MongoDB in January 2022 as a Technical Program Manager, bringing over 20 years of software delivery experience. At MongoDB, he has experienced significant growth partnering with product and engineering executives to successfully deliver key initiatives across the MongoDB Atlas Engineering portfolio such as the DevOps Tools program and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) program. His efforts in establishing the long-term backend engineering vision for Atlas, mentoring team members, building new engineering teams, process improvement, Jira/Slack automation and managing cross-functional programs have propelled his career forward. David is passionate about fostering collaboration, driving process improvement, delivering impact, and sparking innovation, all to empower customers worldwide to build more efficiently through our Atlas Admin API and all our programmatic methods . Read on to learn more about the tools and programs led by David and his team. My path as a Technical Program Manager at MongoDB is a story of continuous learning, strategic innovation, and collaborative problem-solving. When I joined the API Experience and Kubernetes teams, partnering with our VP of Engineering for these areas, I discovered a unique ecosystem at the critical intersection of technology and customer experience, which was experiencing rapid growth. This growth would double the number of engineering teams and create multiple new Director of Engineering and Product Manager roles. These new teams were a continuing sign of our commitment to our customers who are developers accessing the MongoDB Atlas modern database programmatically, leveraging various DevOps Tools such as: Atlas Admin API Atlas Terraform Operator Atlas AWS CloudFormation AtlasCLI Atlas Kubernetes Operator Engineering programs with high-scale impact The DevOps Tools program is more than an engineering initiative— we're digital bridge builders . Its mission extends beyond writing code; we create seamless connections between MongoDB's products and our customers' diverse DevOps and Infrastructure as Code landscapes. We operate where technology meets human experience, ensuring our APIs are not just functional, but intuitive and transformative. We consistently analyze the market to meet our customers' programmatic interaction needs with Atlas. Additionally, we focus on documenting our products to enhance the developer experience. As a Technical Program Manager, I've focused on embedding DevOps Tools considerations deeper into the software development lifecycle across teams building the Atlas Control Pane. I've introduced innovative approaches like: Automation to alert API Experience teams earlier in the product planning process to allow for cross-functional discussions around versioning, breaking changes, DevOps tools requested by customers along with API first or API only techniques AI to identify dependencies in Product Descriptions and Scopes automatically Cross-team contracts to standardize collaboration between teams Creation of new teams to tackle new product areas like our Atlas Terraform Operator and Atlas Kubernetes Operator Jira Dashboards using the Jira API/Scriptrunner for executive metrics on team delivery and inter-team dependency management Increasing security, durability, availability, and performance through SOA Beyond the DevOps Tools Program, I’ve worked on the SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) program, driving MongoDB's long-term backend vision for our cloud backend platform. I focused on aligning over 150 projects between 30+ engineering teams towards the SOA macroservices vision. This effort aims to enhance feature delivery pace while improving customer-visible reliability. Partnering with the VP of Engineering, I have helped shape an architecture supporting sustainable scaling through the breakout of our monolith into macroservices to allow us to scale our workforce and Atlas customer base. The human side of technology What makes our work truly exciting is not just the technical complexity, but the human connections we create. By designing more intuitive APIs and integration tools, we're helping developers worldwide build more efficiently and creatively via programmatic methods. Whether it's organizing cross-functional team offsites in Dublin and Barcelona, or creating sophisticated Jira and Slack automations, my focus has always been on breaking down barriers between teams, departments, and organisations to deliver smoother collaborative processes for all. Why this matters In an era of rapid technological change, especially with AI transforming software development, our work in API Experience and DevOps Tools is more than ever at the forefront of enabling customers to programmatically access our products, such as Atlas Vector Search , to leverage the full potential of their data for AI-driven use cases. My journey at MongoDB has been about empowering teams, connecting technologies, connecting people, and helping our customers achieve more than they thought possible through our modern database . If you're passionate about bridging technology and customer experience, there's no more exciting place to be than MongoDB's API Experience and Kubernetes teams. Head to our careers site to apply for a role on David’s team and join our talent community to stay in the loop on all things #LifeAtMongoDB!
Away From the Keyboard: Everton Agner, Staff Software Engineer
We’re back with a new article in our ongoing “Away From the Keyboard” series, featuring in-depth interviews with people at MongoDB, discussing what they do, how they prioritize time away from their work, and approach to coding. Everton Agner, Staff Software Engineer at MongoDB, talked to us about why team support, transparent communication, and having small rituals are important for creating healthy work-life boundaries. Q: What do you do at MongoDB? Ev: I’m a Staff Software Engineer on the Atlas Foundational Services team. In practice, that means that I develop systems, tools, frameworks, processes and provide guidance within our systems architecture to other engineering teams so they can deliver value and make their customers happy! Q: What does work-life balance look like for you? Ev: My team is hybrid and distributed. I enjoy going to our office a couple of times every week (but don’t have to), and all of our team processes are built with remote friendliness in mind, which is very helpful. Occasionally, I go on call for a week, and make sure that my laptop is reachable in case something happens and it needs my attention. On my team, when there’s an on-call shift during a particular day or weekend that is really inconvenient, we are very supportive, and usually someone is able to swap rotations. Q: How do you ensure you set boundaries between work and personal life? Ev: It’s very easy to fall into the trap of never really disconnecting, thinking about or really just working all day when it’s just an open laptop away. As a rule of thumb, I tell myself that I only ever spend time outside of business hours doing anything work-related when I am not asked or expected to do so by anyone. When I do it, it’s because I want to and will likely have some fun! On the other hand, I’m very transparent when it comes to my personal life and responsibilities, as well as any work adjustments that are needed. Transparency is key, and I’m very lucky that all my managers at MongoDB have always been very accommodating. Q: Has work/life balance always been a priority for you, or did you develop it later in your career? Ev: It always was, but I struggled a bit during my first experience working from home in a hybrid model. Over time, I realized that the small rituals I’ve done during the days I commuted to the office, like getting ready in the morning and driving back home after work, were essential for me “flipping the switch” into on and off of work mode. Developing new rituals when I worked from home—like making sure I had breakfast, took care of my pets, or exercising after work—was essential for me to truly disconnect when I close my laptop. Otherwise I would struggle to enjoy my personal time during the evening or would think about work right after waking up in the morning. Q: What benefits has this balance given you in your career? Ev: I feel like both my personal and professional lives benefited from that. On the personal side, it’s really nice to know that my work schedule accommodates me not being a big morning person, and that it can take personal appointments that can overlap with business hours, like language classes (I’m learning Japanese currently!). On the professional side, sometimes I personally find it productive to spend some time during off-hours to research, write experimental code or documents, or just get ready for the next day while everything’s quiet. Q: What advice would you give to someone seeking to find a better balance? Ev: For me, work-life balance means being able to fully dedicate myself to my personal life without affecting success at my job and vice-versa. Most importantly, it is important to make sure that it’s sustainable and not detrimental to your health. On a more practical note, if you have access to work emails or communication channels on your phone, learning how to set up meaningful notifications is critical. If your phone notifies you of anything work-related outside of working hours, it needs to be important and actionable! Thank you to Everton Agner for sharing their insights! And thanks to all of you for reading. For past articles in this series, check out our interviews with: Senior AI Developer Advocate, Apoorva Joshi Developer Advocate Anaiya Raisinghani Senior Partner Marketing Manager Rafa Liou Interested in learning more about or connecting more with MongoDB? Join our MongoDB Community to meet other community members, hear about inspiring topics, and receive the latest MongoDB news and events. And let us know if you have any questions for our future guests when it comes to building a better work-life balance as developers. Tag us on social media: @/mongodb #LoveYourDevelopers #AwayFromTheKeyboard
Influencing Product Strategy at MongoDB with Garaudy Etienne
Garaudy Etienne joined MongoDB as a Product Manager in October of 2019. Since then, he’s experienced tremendous growth. Successful deliveries of MongoDB 4.4 features and MongoDB 5.0 sharding features helped fuel Garaudy’s career development, as did his work establishing a long-term sharding vision, mentoring others, and successfully managing interns. Now, as a Director of Product, he’s defining the strategic direction across multiple products and helping grow our product management organization and culture. Read on to learn more about Garaudy’s experience at MongoDB and his expanding team. A team with impact My team focuses on distributed systems within MongoDB's core database functions, also known as the database engine. Our team ensures the database is reliable and scalable for our most demanding customers. We ensure the product consistently performs as promised, especially at scale. MongoDB's dependability drives greater usage, which enhances our revenue and brand perception. The problems my team works on are vast and relatively undefined. These include revamping our Go-To-Market strategy for new and existing features, guiding the engineering team on architectural decisions driven by customer demands, identifying target markets, and assisting customers in challenging situations. MongoDB and AI We’re in the early stages of the AI boom. MongoDB’s document model is particularly well-suited for this era, as it excels in handling unstructured data, which makes up the majority of today’s information. As AI increasingly relies on diverse formats like text, images, and videos, our flexible schema enables efficient storage and retrieval of unstructured data, enabling applications to extract valuable insights. Our vector search capability enables fast, complex data matching and retrieval, making it ideal for AI-powered applications. This synergy between MongoDB’s document model plus Vector Search and the needs of AI-driven applications positions us as a powerful foundation for companies looking to enable AI into their workflows. The beauty of working in the core database is that it has to support every workload, including the new and expanding Vector Search applications. This means we need to ensure the database remains robust and scalable as AI demands evolve. Some examples are helping develop a more scalable architecture for Search or a new networking stack for Search. No matter what new capabilities MongoDB decides to deliver or the new markets we enter, everything must pass through the core database. This also allows you to meet lots of people and understand everything the company is doing instead of working in a silo. A rewarding career in product MongoDB is committed to career development, something I’ve experienced first-hand. The company has provided me with development opportunities through product management-specific training with Reforge, conferences, direct engagement with critical customers, and leadership training. As a product manager, I was offered mentorship and coaching with multiple experienced product leaders who provided guidance and support as I worked toward promotions. The company clearly communicates the expectations and requirements for advancement within the product management organization. Reflecting on my journey at MongoDB, I still remember the first two features I PM’d: Hedged Reads and Mirrored Reads. One of my first major highlights was presenting at the MongoDB 5.0 keynote to showcase resharding. Seeing genuine excitement from customers and internal teams about this new feature was incredibly fulfilling and reinforced its value. While the keynote was a public milestone, another personal highlight came when I finally visited one of my engineering teams in Barcelona after nearly two years of remote collaboration. This in-person time was invaluable and helped us bring the groundbreaking sharding changes for MongoDB 6.0 to the finish line. Most recently, defining the key strategic pillars for MongoDB 8.0 and allowing other product managers to take ownership of key initiatives has been more rewarding than I imagined. MongoDB’s engineering team is extremely talented, and collaborating with them always brings me tremendous joy. The most recent highlight of my career has been building a diverse product team and helping other product managers make a larger impact than they previously envisioned. Why MongoDB What keeps me at MongoDB is the opportunity to tackle significant challenges, make autonomous decisions, own multiple products, and take on greater leadership responsibilities. MongoDB also rewards and recognizes product managers who drive meaningful impact across the organization and its products. If these opportunities excite you, you'll thrive as part of MongoDB’s product management team! For my team, I’m committed to providing the right balance of guidance and autonomy. Your decisions will have a lasting impact at the executive and organizational levels, creating continuous opportunities to excel and deliver meaningful results. Plus, I always try to make the job fun. Head to our careers site to apply for a role on Garaudy’s team and join our talent community to stay in the loop on all things #LifeAtMongoDB!
Staff Engineering at MongoDB: Your Path to Making Broad Impact
Andrew Whitaker is a Senior Staff Engineer at MongoDB. His previous experience spans tiny startups to enormous organizations like AWS, where he held several different roles focusing on databases. Before joining MongoDB, he worked at a startup building optimized machine learning models in the cloud. Read on to learn more about why Andrew decided to join MongoDB in a senior-level engineering role and how his work is driving improvement within our engineering organization. Why MongoDB I have long been a fan of MongoDB’s products and services. MongoDB the database has always been a pleasure to work with – the system “brings joy” to quote a phrase. As a Python developer, I appreciate how the Python driver feels “Pythonic” in a completely natural way. The programmer interacts with the database using Python constructs: dictionaries, lists, and primitive types. By contrast, SQL databases force me to change my mental model, and the query language feels like an add-on that does not blend with the core language. As an engineer, I am always looking to expand my knowledge and grow my skills. The scope of challenges engineers face at MongoDB is what triggered my interest in the company. We obviously have people working on core databases and distributed systems. But, we also have teams dedicated to machine learning, streaming data, analytics, networking, developer tooling, drivers, and many more areas. It is very hard to get bored working at MongoDB. Finally, I would be remiss if I did not mention the people. Overall, MongoDB’s engineering culture prioritizes intelligence, low ego, and an ability to get stuff done. CL/CI (Continuous Learning, Continuous Improvement) Working at MongoDB has provided me with opportunities for continued learning and growth. Though I do not program as much as I did earlier in my career, I have recently been exploring the Rust language. I’m excited by Rust because it avoids the tradeoffs between predictable performance and safety. My work in the search space has given me exposure to the fast moving world of AI: vector embeddings, RAG, etc. For various reasons, I think MongoDB is uniquely positioned to do well in this area. On top of this, I’m working on some initiatives that are not fully public. I can say that one focus area is improving the sharding experience for our customers. We believe MongoDB sharding is best-in-breed. Still, the process requires more manual configuration than we think is ideal: customers select the shard key, cluster type, shard count, etc. We give guidance here, but I think we can raise the bar in terms of offering a seamless experience with less “futz”. I’m also working with the search team. We believe there is a natural affinity between MongoDB’s document model and AI/ML workloads. We have some features in the works that extend this integration in new and interesting ways. I also spend a fair bit of time driving quality improvements across our suite of products. Our CTO Jim Scharf frequently refers to our “ big 4 ” goals: security, durability, availability, and performance. These goals are more important than any feature we build. I’ve been working across the company to help teams define their availability SLO/SLAs. It turns out that measuring availability is a subtle topic. For example, a naive approach of counting the percentage of failed requests can underestimate downtime because customers make fewer requests when a service is unavailable. So, the first step is to clarify the definition of availability. Finally, as a lapsed academic (in a distant life, I was a graduate student at the University of Washington Department of Computer Science and Engineering), I’m always interested in finding ways to bridge theory and practice. I’ve been collaborating with some folks in our research team to drive improvements to our replication protocols. There are theoretical results that suggest it is impossible to simultaneously achieve low latency and strong consistency (“linearizability” in the technical jargon). However, we believe there are intermediate points in the consistency/latency spectrum that have not been fully explored. This work hasn't been made into a product yet, but stay tuned. Flexible working MongoDB is a hybrid company. Like many of our engineers, I work outside the company headquarters in New York City (I live in Seattle). I appreciate MongoDB’s approach to hybrid working and that company leadership, starting with Dev , cares about the well-being of their employees. It seems there are companies that don’t seem to trust their employees to make decisions, such as which days to come into the office, so I’m thankful for the autonomy I receive at MongoDB to work in a way that’s best for me. Remote work has its challenges, but I would say that the benefit for my work/life balance has been transformative. Final thoughts I have found MongoDB engineers demonstrate a strong mix of technical depth, pragmatism, and empathy. I have yet to find the “smart jerk” prototype that seems to exist throughout the tech industry. Overall, I have found MongoDB is open to change and growth at both the team level and the individual level. There is a willingness to evolve and improve that aligns with the company’s values and leadership principles and enables the success of our technology and people. Find out more about MongoDB culture and career opportunities by joining our talent community .
Away From the Keyboard: Rafa Liou, Senior Partner Marketing Manager
Welcome to the latest article in our “Away From the Keyboard” series, which features interviews with people at MongoDB, discussing what they do, how they prioritize time away from their work, and their advice for others looking to create a more holistic approach to coding.
Driving Neurodiversity Awareness and Education at MongoDB
Roughly 20% of the US population is neurodiverse, which means that you likely work with a colleague who learns and navigates the workplace (and the world) differently than you do. Which is a good thing! Studies have shown that hiring neurodiverse individuals benefits workplaces, with Deloitte noting that organizations “can gain a competitive edge from increased diversity in skills, ways of thinking, and approaches to problem-solving.”
Technical Services Tools: Embracing Modern Frameworks and Influencing Efficiency
The Technical Services Tools team at MongoDB plays a pivotal role in ensuring efficiency throughout the customer lifecycle. Led by experienced engineers like Jarrod Hinson, the team leverages advanced technologies such as generative AI and modern frameworks like MERN and MEAN to develop tools that enhance security, streamline support processes, and integrate seamlessly into MongoDB's ecosystem. By prioritizing collaboration and innovation, the team not only supports internal stakeholders, but also delivers significant value to MongoDB's customers, setting new standards in technical service excellence.
Helping MongoDB Customers Unlock Potential with Industry Solutions
Gabriela Preiss is a senior manager within Industry Solutions at MongoDB and was instrumental in building out the team in Barcelona. She’s now relocated to Austin, Texas to build a team in Mexico City and continue expanding the Industry Solutions footprint. In this article, Gabriela shares more about Industry Solutions at MongoDB and how they’re making a difference for both customers and our internal go-to-market teams.
MongoDB Sales Recognized as a Top 20 Org for Professional Development by RepVue
It’s no secret that investing in your people can lead to incredible outcomes, especially for sales organizations. Companies with engaged employees see increased productivity, more profitability, and higher earnings per share. And because go-to-market (GTM) functions are responsible for more than 40% of revenue at high-growth software companies, driving effectiveness and engagement within GTM teams is paramount.
Driven by Values: One Account Executive’s Journey into Personal and Professional Growth
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Hear from Adam, Enterprise Account Executive and member of the MongoDB_API employee resource group, as he shares about his role at MongoDB, the importance of living company values, and how MongoDB has contributed to his personal and professional growth.
The Developers' Developers: Two Australian Developers Share Their Connections to Customers
The world’s 28 million software developers are writing the foundations of our future, propelling innovation for their organizations through lines of code by creating game-changing new apps. Indeed, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that between 2022 and 2032, the number of software developers, quality assurance analysts, and testers will grow 24%, “much faster than the average for all occupations.”
Embracing Neurodiversity During Autism Awareness Month
April is Autism Awareness Month. According to a 2023 study by The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, nearly half of neurodivergent employees feel impacted by their conditions in the workplace. On top of this, many neurodivergent employees choose to not disclose their conditions due to fear of stigma or reduced career opportunities. It’s safe to say that organizations can do more to create supportive, inclusive, and empowering environments for neurodivergent employees.
Architecting Success as a Woman in Tech
Celia Halenke, Solutions Architect at MongoDB, shares insight into the skills, experiences, and aspirations that shape her MongoDB journey in the dynamic world of technology. Plus, learn about her advice for teams wanting to build more inclusive environments for women in tech sales.
They Asked, We Answered: A Q&A on Joining MongoDB’s Remote Solutions Center
Our Remote Solutions Center (RSC) team offers those with technical backgrounds interested in working with customers an opportunity to jumpstart a career in pre-sales. We asked Soheyl Rafi, Solutions Architect and former Remote Solutions Center team member, some common questions candidates have about joining the team.
Should I Begin a Pre-Sales Career at MongoDB? Insights from Our Remote Solutions Center
Do you have a technical background and enjoy working with customers? Have you considered beginning a career in pre-sales? Aicha Sarr, Solutions Architect at MongoDB, shares insights into how our Remote Solutions Center offers a path to building a career in pre-sales. Read on to learn more about how our Remote Solutions Center team builds off of each other’s strengths, applies their technical expertise, and focuses on customer success.
Navigating the Indian Tech Landscape: MongoDB's Path to Success
As the Area Vice President of Sales for MongoDB in India, Sachin Chawla is at the forefront of a thriving market. In this article, he sheds light on MongoDB's strategy, challenges, and future opportunities in India.
India: A Cornerstone of Growth for MongoDB Technical Services
India has emerged as a cornerstone in our MongoDB Technical Services growth story, marked by the team’s 100% growth in just two years. Bengaluru has been at the forefront of our expansion, witnessing an incredible increase in personnel and the addition of new teams and functions to support our modern database. This highlights Bengaluru’s emerging role in providing critical technical assistance to our customers and partners.
MongoDB is Changing the Way We Hire Veterans: Learn How
One of our core company values at MongoDB is “Embrace the Power of Differences” which means that we commit to creating a culture of inclusivity with employees from different backgrounds and experiences. We value a diverse workforce as a way to broaden our perspectives, foster innovation, and enable competitive advantages. Our employee resource groups (ERGs) support our larger commitment to a diverse and inclusive community and empower our employees to create an internal network that they are passionate about.
Building a Culture of Growth: SVP Simon Eid on MongoDB's Massive Opportunity in APAC
Simon Eid is Senior Vice President Asia-Pacific (APAC) at MongoDB and leads the sales teams across Australia and New Zealand, India, ASEAN, and Japan. Simon's go-to-market organisation in APAC is growing rapidly and has nearly tripled in size in the past three years. They are hiring in all regions. In this article, Simon discusses MongoDB’s opportunity in APAC and how he builds a culture of growth and accountability.
Being Latine in Tech: Two MongoDB Employees Share Their Advice on Building Careers in Engineering
Ashley Naranjo and Martin Bajana, members of MongoDB’s employee resource group QueLatine, share their career journeys and offer insight into how other members of the Latine community can build careers in tech.
Serving as the Digital Bridge: Meet the APIx Team at MongoDB
Meet MongoDB’s API Experience (APIx) team, the innovative group that connects our customers with our products. Their work is no small task; they operate at the intersection of technology and customer experience, ensuring that the product and user experience remains integrated, efficient, and effective. Keep reading to learn how APIx is making an impact and what it means to be part of this growing team.
Unleashing Innovation in the Start-Up Nation: Inside MongoDB Israel
Israel, often referred to as the “start-up nation”, has a thriving tech scene and drive for innovation. In the bustling city of Tel Aviv, our MongoDB office offers a space for employees from across the organization to collaborate, build community, and empower MongoDB customers to unleash the power of software and data. Now with over 50 employees in Tel Aviv, MongoDB Israel is paving the way for data platform transformation in this start-up nation. Read on to learn more about life at MongoDB in Israel.
Sales Advice for a Winning Year
Sam Fiorenzo and Lorena Cortes are two exceptional salespeople at MongoDB who have made a significant impact on their careers and the company. As they geared up to join our Excellence Club, they offered to share their insights and advice on what it takes to have a successful year in sales. Whether you're just starting out or looking to take your career to the next level, their tips and strategies are sure to inspire and guide you on your journey.
Efficiency and Empathy: A Conversation with MongoDB’s Director of Business Systems
Tech Ops at MongoDB is committed to implementing tools and improving processes that enable our teams to work more efficiently and effectively. Hear from Devika Saharya, Director of Business Systems, to learn more about how her teams are making an impact, her approach to leadership, experience as a member of the Asian American community, and the challenges and opportunities she’s taken hold of throughout her career.
Creating a Culture of Experimentation: A Conversation with MongoDB’s Mark Porter and Accenture’s Michael Ljung
Asked about his failures, Thomas Edison famously replied, “I have not failed 10,000 times. I have successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work.” Today’s organizations need that same spirit of experimentation to build the innovative products demanded by customers and by the health of their businesses. But while we’re all familiar with the doctrine of failing fast, few organizations are able to provide and protect a culture that allows people to rapidly test and discard ideas, burning through the ones that don’t work and finding the best ones quickly.
Why MongoDB’s Partner Team is Focused like a Laser, Not a Flashlight
Four years ago, I wrote an article about how our Partner and Sales teams work together to ensure success. Since then, our Partner organization has grown five times in size and become even more of a competitive differentiator for MongoDB. As we continue to build lasting relationships with our partners and become even more strategic in how we leverage our partnerships, I’m reflecting on how far the Partner organization has come and where we’re headed.
Informing MongoDB Product Strategy Through Analytical Insights: Meet Natalya Furmanova
Natalya Furmanova joined MongoDB as a Product Manager in 2018. Since then, she’s had the opportunity to pursue her passions by making an internal transfer to our Data Analytics team where she produces quantitative insights that, simply put, help make our products better! Read on to learn more about how Natalya makes an impact in her role as a Data Analyst and what makes this team a great fit for someone who loves solving highly analytical problems.
Honoring Black History Month: How These MongoDB Employees Defied the Odds
February is Black History Month. It’s a time to reflect on and celebrate the struggles and triumphs of the black community and remember the importance of elevating black voices. Each year at MongoDB, we ask members of our employee resource group BEAM (Black Employees At MongoDB) if they’d like to share a personal story about their experiences and what this month means to them. This year, hear from Administrative Assistant Rita Henderson and Regional Director Daniel Hawthorne to learn more about their journeys into tech.
How the Atlas Search Team Empowers Engineers: Meet Nolan Lum
To take advantage of the benefits of having a modern database, MongoDB users need the ability to search and filter quickly against their dataset. Nolan Lum is a senior software engineer on MongoDB’s Atlas Search team where she helps create the fastest and easiest way to build relevance-based search capabilities directly into applications.
Skunkworks 2022: A Week of Building for MongoDB Engineers
MongoDB’s 2022 internal Skunkworks hackathon wrapped up in July, and it was a bustling time of hacking, building, and developing. For MongoDB engineers, Skunkworks is a week of no meetings and no interviews—engineers can have fun and work alongside co-workers from different teams to build side projects, proof of concepts, or anything else imaginable.
MongoDB Employees Share Their Coming Out Stories: (Inter)national Coming Out Day 2022
National Coming Out Day is celebrated annually on October 11th and is widely recognized in the United States and parts of Europe. MongoDB proudly supports and embraces the LGBTQIA+ community across the globe, so we’ve reimagined this celebration as (Inter)national Coming Out Day, and this year is our third official celebration.
Honoring Latine Heritage Month at MongoDB
Heritage and culture sits at the centerfold of human interaction. With a population of more than 650 million people, speaking over 400 different languages, and spanning a geographic area from the tip of Patagonia to the Caribbean, the people of Latin America and the culture of their 33 countries are difficult to condense into one identity. In celebration of Latine Heritage Month, we asked a few Latine MongoDB employees to reflect on their heritage and ultimately how that shapes their work.
Solving Business Problems and Impacting Customer Experience with MongoDB’s Data Analytics Team
Chris Douglas is currently a Product Analytics Manager on MongoDB’s Data Analytics team in New York City. In this article, we discuss the team culture and growth, how analysts make an impact, and the close partnership they’ve built with our product organization. Read on to learn more about data analytics at MongoDB.
4 Reasons Why Your Tech Company Should Launch a Podcast
Podcasts, originally known as audioblogs, are a relatively new content format. The first podcast didn’t launch until some time around 2004, so it makes sense that many organizations have not, historically, considered podcasting to be a top priority.
Women’s Advocacy Summit Recap: The Value of Inclusive Cultures
It’s July 26, 2022, and Sandhya Parameshwara, Managing Director, Accenture, opens the Women’s Advocacy Summit with a stark wake-up call: There are clear disconnects between business leaders’ perceptions of the importance of workplace culture and inclusivity and those of their employees and the wider public, especially millennials.
Breaking the Bias: How Can We Get More Women Into Top-Level Tech?
As a company committed to building a culture of belonging, MongoDB strives to attract and retain a diverse workforce. To support this goal, we created MDBWomen, a community where MongoDB employees identifying as women can seek support, share experiences, and build connections.
Development, Enablement, and Career Transformation With MongoDB’s Corporate Sales Team
MongoDB continues to grow our corporate sales team in Europe and the Middle East (EMEA). MongoDB corporate account executives sell into some of the world's highest growth and IT-focused companies, with a goal of securing net new accounts in organizations of up to 1,500 employees. Often working directly with CTOs, Engineering/IT leaders, and technical end users, our corporate sales team drives and builds solutions that serve the best interests of our customers to help them innovate faster than ever before.
How Trust and Collaboration Are Helping Intern Erin McNulty Take On New Challenges
Erin McNulty, a rising senior at Columbia University, is working as a software engineering intern in MongoDB’s New York City office. After interning at MongoDB during the summer of 2021, Erin returned this year to take on a new challenge on a new team — and a new programming language. Read on for more about Erin’s experience and how MongoDB’s engineering culture has enabled her to grow.
Meet Gabriella Cohen: Expanding MongoDB’s Presence in Israel as the Newest Regional Vice President
Gabriella Cohen recently joined MongoDB’s sales leadership team as Regional Vice President for Israel. We sat down to discuss her career move from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to MongoDB and the opportunities for sellers in the Israeli market.
How These MongoDB Employees Celebrated Juneteenth
On June 19, 1865, soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, announcing that the more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in the state were free by executive decree. This was more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. Today, June 19 is celebrated as Juneteenth, a day of hope despite present-day uncertainty. It reminds us that at the end of every struggle there comes a time for a change if we persist and do not give up.
How Two MongoDB Employees Are Reflecting on Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month is a time to reflect on and celebrate the many communities and cultures that make up this group of individuals. Each community has its own history, struggles, and achievements, and it’s important to recognize that the experiences of individuals who belong to them may differ greatly.
From Enterprise Account Executive to Regional Director: How Lucile Tournier Has Accelerated Her Career with MongoDB France
Lucile Tournier joined MongoDB France as an Enterprise Account Executive in 2020. From learning new technology to becoming a new mom and taking on a leadership role, Lucile has had an incredible journey over the past two years. In this article, I talk with Lucile to learn more about her experience on the Enterprise Sales team in France and how she has grown her career to become a Regional Director at MongoDB.
Building Together: A Look Into MongoDB’s Newest Location in Barcelona
MongoDB may be headquartered in New York City, but our company has offices spanning the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific region. We are currently made up of more than 3,600 employees and are continuing to grow. On October 1, 2021, MongoDB opened a new office in Barcelona, a city that is quickly becoming an important European business hub. Hear from some of our Barcelona employees to learn about life at MongoDB in Barcelona and why it’s an exciting time to join this expanding location.
MongoDB ASEAN: How the Corporate Sales Team Is Scaling in One of MongoDB’s Fastest-Growing Regions
MongoDB is growing rapidly around the globe, but one region experiencing particularly significant growth this year is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Our ASEAN team works with customers in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines. Hear from members of our Sales and Presales team to learn more about how they’re growing their careers and MongoDB’s presence in ASEAN.
How These Women Are Leading Teams and Growing Their Careers at MongoDB
Each year, MongoDB highlights some of our most influential leaders in celebration of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month. These women were nominated by their colleagues for making a huge impact on their teams. They’re taking their careers (and MongoDB) to new heights and inspire us every day!
Honoring Black History Month
As Black History Month comes to an end, we reflect on and honor the history, legacies, achievements, and contributions of the Black community in the United States. Hear from three members of MongoDB’s affinity group TUPOC (the Underrepresented People of Color) to learn more about what this month means to them, and how they are honoring Black history all year round.
Meet Gesa Musiol: Growing Her Career in Customer Success at MongoDB
Gesa Musiol has experienced exponential career growth since joining MongoDB two years ago. Through multiple promotions and a relocation, she’s achieved both personal and professional goals and continues to learn something new every day. I spoke with Gesa to learn more about her MongoDB journey and what’s exciting about being part of our Customer Success organization.
Solving Complex Technical Challenges with MongoDB’s Technical Services Team
MongoDB's Technical Services team works with our customers to ensure that their MongoDB deployments are running at their best. From a query performance question on a test Atlas cluster to helping upgrade large self-hosted sharded clusters run by some of the world's best-known global enterprises, the Technical Services team is available 24/7 to help our customers with any MongoDB product or feature. This deeply technical team is distributed globally, with a variety of backgrounds and expertise to ensure that they can best address any new issue or question. In addition to solving these complex customer challenges, the team also works on internal projects such as software development of support tools for performance tuning, benchmarking, and diagnostics.
Starting a Career as a Solutions Architect in MongoDB’s Remote Presales Centre
MongoDB’s Remote Presales Centre is kickstarting presales careers and helping customers unlock the value of MongoDB technology. I spoke with Chris Dowling and Snehal Bhatia to learn more about the Remote Presales Centre Solutions Architect role, how they’re making an impact, and why this is an exciting opportunity for those interested in understanding the intersection of business and technology.
Corporate Sales at MongoDB: Meet the Reps
MongoDB Corporate Account Executives sell into some of the world's highest growth and IT-focused companies, with a goal of securing net new logos in organizations of up to 1500 employees. They drive and build solutions that serve the best interest of our customers to help them innovate faster than ever before, often working directly with CTOs, Engineering/IT leaders, and technical end users. A majority of our Corporate Sales team sits in Austin, Texas, with other reps and leaders spread across the U.S. Meet three Corporate Account Executives to learn about their experience in the role and why our Corporate Sales org is a great place to grow your career.
MongoDB is One of Battery Ventures' 25 Highest-Rated Public Cloud Computing Companies to Work For
Crain's recently recognized MongoDB as one of the best places to work in New York City. Today, Battery Ventures announced that MongoDB is also one of the best places to work in the cloud; specifically, Battery named us one of the "25 Highest-Rated Public Cloud Computing Companies to Work For." Battery compiles the list based on Glassdoor ratings and reviews left by employees. In other words, MongoDB's inclusion in the recognition depends upon current and past employees rating MongoDB highly.
From Software Developer to Product Manager: Meet Maria van Keulen
Maria joined MongoDB a bit over five years ago and recently transitioned from Software Engineering to Product Management. I had the opportunity to learn about what Maria’s transition was like and how her experiences as a Senior Software Engineer have helped her succeed as a Product Manager.
Five Tips for Creating Your Product Design Portfolio
The UX, Interaction, and Product Design professions have experienced a massive increase in demand as more and more companies embrace technology and recognize the importance of providing a positive user experience. A designer’s portfolio is needed for almost every job application or interview process, regardless of your level of experience, and it should be an accurate representation of your process and craft. If you’re working on your portfolio or starting to interview, here are a few tips to help make your portfolio stand out.
Five Tips for Writing Your Marketing Resume
We are always looking for talented and passionate marketers to join our team at MongoDB, and we want to set you up for success starting at the first step in our recruiting process. No matter how many positions you’ve applied for in the past, it’s always a good idea to refresh your resume for each application. If you’re interested in applying to our Marketing team, take a look at my tips for writing an impactful resume.
Sales Development Series: Meet the North America Sales Development Team
Sales Development is a crucial part of the Sales organization at MongoDB. Our Sales Development function is broken down into Sales Development Representatives (SDRs), who qualify and validate inbound opportunities from both existing and prospective customers, and Account Development Representatives (ADRs), who support outbound opportunities by planning and executing pipeline generation strategies. Both of these roles offer an excellent path to kickstarting your career in sales at MongoDB.
How to Prepare for Your Engineering Interview at MongoDB
MongoDB’s Engineering team is full of creative individuals who play an impactful role in building our industry-leading technology. Our interview process is designed to ensure that you and MongoDB are a great match, and, no matter how many interviews you have done in the past, being prepared is the key to being successful. At MongoDB, we do our best to make sure you have a great interview experience and an opportunity to learn about our company, culture, and the people you will be working with. To help you prepare for your technical interviews, we want to share some tips.
MongoDB is a Crain's Best Place to Work in NYC for the Fifth Year in a Row
We’re thrilled to announce that MongoDB has made Crain’s 2021 Best Places to Work in New York City list. This is the fifth year in a row that we’ve ranked among Crain’s top 100 companies in New York City, coming in at #29 for 2021. Among large companies specifically, MongoDB ranks #14 out of 47.
How to Prepare for Your Sales Interview at MongoDB
At MongoDB, our Sales team is growing rapidly as we strive to build a salesforce with a legendary reputation of excellence and integrity. Although we are eager to add new reps to our team, we are focused on ensuring we hire the right people for the job and that we’re the right company for you, too! Because of this, our interview process may not be as quick or look the same as other companies’. We feel confident that we’ve designed our interviews to uncover a mutually beneficial opportunity that will allow anyone who joins the team to look back on their time at MongoDB as a career-defining point in their lives.
Preparing for Your Customer Success Interview at MongoDB
We’re thrilled that you’re interested in interviewing for a Customer Success role at MongoDB! Preparing for an interview can often feel overwhelming, but there are several steps you can take to prepare yourself for a successful interview with our Customer Success team.
Four Tips for Writing and Applying with Your Engineering Resume
At MongoDB, we’re always looking for creative and passionate engineers who want to make an impact on the world. If you’re interested in a role on our Engineering team, we encourage you to apply! Before doing so, here are a few things you can do to make your engineering resume stand out at MongoDB.
From Solutions Architect to Enterprise Account Executive: How Julian Storz is Growing His Career at MongoDB
MongoDB empowers employees to transform their careers by growing in the direction they want. One of the ways we do this is through our many internal transfer opportunities. Hear from Julian Storz about his transfer from Solutions Architect to Enterprise Account Executive and how he became the inspiration behind the MongoDB Lego person along the way.
Meet MongoDB's 2021 Sydney Storage Engines Interns
Last December, in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the MongoDB Campus Team successfully completed a virtual recruitment season for the first time in the program’s history. An important part of those new recruits were the Sydney Storage Engines Team interns. Our Storage Engines team was created by way of acquisition and contributes to the performance, scalability, and hardware efficiency of MongoDB.
The Future is Inclusive: Meet The Queer Collective, MongoDB's Affinity Group for the LGBTQIA+ Community & Allies
MongoDB affinity groups are employee-led resource groups that bring together employees with similar backgrounds, interests, or goals. They play an important role in our company and culture. Our affinity groups build community and connections, help us raise awareness of issues unique to members’ experiences, and offer networking and professional development opportunities.
Meet Our Growing Flex Consulting Team
In this blog post, Aman Kumar, Director of Flex Consulting, writes about the growing Flex Consulting team within our Professional Services organization. Aman and some of his team members give insight into the Consulting Engineer role; what you can expect in terms of training, learning opportunities, and team culture; and why this is an exciting career opportunity.
Why It's an Exciting Time to Join MongoDB's Expanding Australian Location
Although MongoDB is headquartered in New York City, our company has offices spanning the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. MongoDB is currently made up of more than 2,900 employees, and we are continuing to grow.
MDBWomen: A Look into MongoDB’s Affinity Group for Women-Identifying Employees
MongoDB affinity groups are employee-led resource groups that bring together employees with similar backgrounds, interests, or goals. They play an important role in our company and culture. Our affinity groups build community and connections, help us raise awareness of issues unique to their members’ experiences, and offer networking and professional development opportunities.
How Three College Friends Became MongoDB Coworkers
Siya Raj Purohit, Chaitanya Varanasi, and Sohail Shaikh first met while attending the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) as undergraduate students. Five years after graduating, they found themselves brought together again — this time by MongoDB. I recently sat down with Siya, Chai, and Sohail to talk about this friendship that has been sustained through divergent career paths and continues to grow alongside their roles at MongoDB.
Think Big, Go Far with the MongoDB Customer Success Team
Customer Success Managers (CSMs) play an integral role at MongoDB by providing our customers with the tools and guidance they need to make an impact on the world with their applications. Our Customer Success team is made up of employees from all around the world and collectively speaks 10 languages. Stay tuned to learn more about how the team has grown over the years and get insights into what a day in the life of a CSM at MongoDB is really like.
Meet Some of MongoDB’s Influential Women Leaders in 2021
Each year, MongoDB highlights some of our most influential leaders in celebration of International Women’s Day. These women are making a huge impact on their teams and the company, have grown their careers at MongoDB as managers, and inspire us every day.
Switching Teams and Beginning a New Career as a Solutions Architect: Meet Idriss Ouazzani
I sat down with Idriss Ouazzani, a Solutions Architect (SA) based in France, to gain a deeper understanding of his fast track to success, rising from Customer Success Manager (CSM) to his current SA role in less than two years. We also spoke about his upbringing in Morocco, his deep love of learning, and the ways in which MongoDB has kept him motivated and energized.
Transitioning from Teacher to MongoDB’s Industry Solutions Team: Meet Gabriela Preiss
As a global company, MongoDB has amazing employees with interesting backgrounds and stories. I recently sat down with Gabriela Preiss, a Senior Industry Solutions Consultant, to learn more about her journey across the globe from the U.S. to Barcelona, Spain, and her experience transitioning from teaching to becoming the first hire for MongoDB’s brand-new Industry Solutions Team, shifting enterprises toward innovation and generating a ton of compelling content along the way.
MongoDB’s Customer Success Team Is Growing: Meet Members from Our EMEA Team
MongoDB is the perfect home for anybody looking to join a dynamic, fast-paced, and rapidly growing technology company that’s blazing a trail in the database market. And because we’re onboarding new customers constantly — from massive household brands to the newest startup — we need amazing people to set them up for success from day one.
How MongoDB’s Technical Services Team Solves Customers’ Complex Problems
I sat down with Blake Deakin, Area Vice President for Technical Services, to get a deeper understanding of the complex and unique customer problems his team solves every day. Here, we explore how the Technical Services team has grown, the challenges they tackle, and what skills make someone successful in this role.
Engineering for Engineers: How MongoDB’s Culture Enables Engineers to Be Their Very Best
As a leading technology company disrupting the fast-growing database market, MongoDB offers a unique opportunity for ambitious engineers. Here, we’re engineers for engineers, breaking down barriers to entry and enabling all developers — from a teen dabbling in app development to a team lead working at a massive enterprise — to have the tools needed to make their big ideas happen.
How MongoDB’s Engagement Managers Help Our Customers Succeed
If there’s one thing our employees can agree on, it’s that MongoDB is committed to our customers’ success. From using customer feedback to build new products and features to spinning up new teams to improve customer experience, we’re always on the lookout to improve quality and functionality.
Meet Sam Fiorenzo: Why I Chose MongoDB for a Second Time
I sat down with Sam Fiorenzo, Enterprise Account Executive in our Austin office, to learn about her quick career growth in sales at MongoDB. We talked about how she progressed through multiple promotions, why she left, and what made her want to come back less than a year later.
MongoDB Employees Share Their Coming Out Stories
National Coming Out Day is celebrated annually on October 11 and is widely recognized in the U.S. This year, however, as a company that embraces and supports all of our employees across the globe, MongoDB reimagined the celebration as (Inter)national Coming Out Day.
Technical Services Engineering at MongoDB: Meet Alex Bevilacqua
I've been a technical services engineer (TSE) at MongoDB for two years now, but I wanted to share what the journey of getting started in this role looked like for me. I'm also going to dive deeper into what a TSE actually does and why it is both a challenging and fulfilling career.
How to Kick Start a Sales Career at MongoDB
I sat down with Mike Rioux, Director of Global Sales Enablement at MongoDB to learn more about our sales enablement programs and the training that our new Sales hires go through during their first year at the company. We also discussed our ongoing sales training for all employees and how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the way we conduct our sales enablement programming.
Meet Holly Farrington: Building a Successful Career in Enterprise Sales
I sat down with Holly Farrington, Senior Enterprise Account Executive, to learn about her experiences on the Enterprise Sales team at MongoDB. We talked about her experience transitioning back to work after returning from personal leave, as well as her advice to other women who want to build a successful career in sales.
Meet the Business Development Research Team at MongoDB
I sat down with members of the Business Development Research (BDR) team based in India to better understand what the team does and how they have grown their careers at MongoDB. The BDR team was started in 2017 to support our sales team through targeted research on prospects and accounts. They have since grown to be a fully-fledged support function for many business units within MongoDB. Through their research, they are able to provide directional insights on the right people to talk to, with the right information, at the right time, helping connect the dots and strategize effectively on accounts.
Intern Series: From Electrical Engineering at McMaster to Pasta Making at MongoDB - Meet Tristan Wedderburn
Tristan Wedderburn is a rising fourth year Computer Engineering major at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He spent this summer at MongoDB interning with our MongoDB Atlas team.
Breaking the Stigma Around Mental Health: Meet Yulia Genkina
Yulia Genkina is a Curriculum Engineer on the Education team at MongoDB. In her day-to-day, she creates new educational experiences for others to learn how to use MongoDB. She loves what she does because she believes that access to learning should be free and available to everyone. Before working at MongoDB, she used to teach in a public school in New York City. Yulia is also an advocate for mental health and sat down with me to share her experiences and why she believes we need to break the stigma that surrounds mental healthcare.
Intern Series: Five Reasons Why You Should Attend MongoDB’s Open House
Hi, my name is Yuhong Zhang! I’m an international student from Beijing. I did my undergrad in Computer Science at New York University and I’m now continuing my studies at Carnegie Mellon University. Last summer, I attended MongoDB’s Annual Summer Open House at their NYC headquarters in order to learn about MongoDB’s intern program and meet the MongoDB Campus Recruiting team. The Open House was an unforgettable experience and I had the opportunity to meet some amazing people. Deeply inspired, I applied to MongoDB’s internship program and now I’m here working on the Storage Execution Team within our Core Server department.
MongoDB’s Summer Internship Program in Sydney, Australia
In December, 2019 we launched our second summer internship program in our Sydney, Australia office. We were so proud to welcome our 2019 Sydney interns Angus Lee, Jeremy Tay, and Giuliano Celani. I sat down to interview Angus, Jeremy, and Giuliano to learn more about their experience and what they learned throughout their internship at MongoDB.
How to Land a Corporate Sales Role at MongoDB
As the VP of Corporate Sales in the Americas at MongoDB, I’ve seen a lot of growth and positive change. When I first joined MongoDB, we were pre-IPO but the opportunity in the database market and what MongoDB was doing to disrupt it was obvious. In the three years since, we’ve more than tripled the size of the team, changed our go-to-market strategy, and increased productivity by doubling the number of bookings on average made by Account Executives.
Singapore to Nebraska to New York: My Experience As An Asian American Woman In Tech
In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, I sat down with Monica Lu to learn more about her family’s history and how it has turned her into the strong role model she is today. Monica is a Senior Analyst, Sales Analytics on our Sales Operations team — take a look at her story.
How to Build a Customer Success Team in Six Steps: My MongoDB Journey
It was the summer of 2016. I was standing in a board meeting about to present my strategy for how I was going to build a Customer Success (CS) program at MongoDB. My heart was beating out of my chest. I was three months pregnant with my first child and had only 6 months to get the program off the ground.
Why Now is a Cool Time to Be Different: A Q&A with Steph Johnson
In honor of Autism Awareness month in April, our Diversity and Inclusion team led a session for our employees called “Decoding Inclusion” to discuss neurodiversity. During the session, Steph Johnson, VP Corporate Comms, shared her experiences of living with Tourette Syndrome. After the event, I sat down with Steph to learn more about her career path and how Tourette’s has impacted her life.
Design Case Study: MongoDB Cloud Navigation Redesign
Taking on a product redesign is always a lofty, ambitious goal for any company, but fundamentally MongoDB wanted to remedy some pain points we’ve been hearing from our customers and internal users around the hierarchy of our products. Over the past year and a half, we have been working on a redesign of our MongoDB Cloud platform that aims to solve customer problems and give us room to scale in the future when we release new products and features.
Meet our Product Design Team: Part 2
Here is part two of our “Meet Our Product Design Team” series (part one can be found here). We compose the brand/visual, product design, research, education, developer relations, and design systems teams scattered across the company worldwide. If you’re interested in joining our team, learn more about what it's like to work here first-hand from our designers below
Meet our Product Design Team: Part 1
At MongoDB, our design philosophy (centered on clarity, integrity, inclusiveness, consistency, and automation) is ingrained across all of our design teams. As a whole, we’re composed of individuals in brand/visual, developer relations, design systems, education, product design, and user research. Our collaborative design process focuses on pillars of rigor, passion, and impact—not to mention, lots of cake to celebrate everyone’s birthdays.
Launching MongoDB's Women's Group in India
In September 2019, Neha Mukherjee and Palki Sood joined forces to pursue a passion project — creating a local Women’s Group chapter for MongoDB employees in our Gurugram, India office. While MongoDB offers a global Women’s Group, Neha and Palki locally took the India-based Women’s Group to new levels by engaging employees with monthly events and building a strong, inspiring support network for its members. In this interview, you will learn more about how the group was formed, what its mission is, and get a taste for our incredible work culture in India.
Meet Some of MongoDB’s Influential Women Leaders in 2020
In celebration of International Women's Day, we are highlighting some of our most influential leaders at MongoDB. They are making a huge impact on their teams and the company as a whole. Here are a few who have grown their careers at MongoDB and inspire us every day.
Making an Impact as a Solution Architect at MongoDB - Meet Winston Vargo
In this interview, you will get the chance to meet Winston Vargo, who is an Enterprise Solutions Architect (SA) in New York City. Winston walks us through some of the most exciting projects he’s worked on so far and explains what it’s like to be an SA at MongoDB.
My Experiences as a Senior Solutions Architect and a Mother on Parental Leave: Meet Veronica Tudor
In this interview, you will meet Veronica Tudor, Senior Solutions Architect in Dublin. Veronica speaks about how this role compares to her previous ones, and she also opens up about her maternity leave, and how she’s grown both personally and professionally at MongoDB.
Intern Series: Learning from the Experts on MongoDB's Query Team - Meet George Wangensteen
George Wangensteen is a rising senior at Brown University studying Computer Science. He was a Software Engineering Intern this summer at MongoDB on the Query team. During his internship, he learned a new programming language and improved his skills as an engineer with the help of his mentors and the talented engineers he had the chance to work with.
Intern Series: Making an Impact as an Intern on MongoDB’s Driver Team
Sam Pal is a Computer Science major and Technology and Management minor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her first foray into technology was a Girls Who Code immersion program one summer in high school, and she’s been committed to activism and technology ever since. In this interview, you will hear about Sam’s experiences as an engineering intern on MongoDB’s Driver team.
How to Rock Your Customer Success Interview at MongoDB
As the Global Director of Customer Success (CS), I have seen the team grow astronomically over my 2 years at MongoDB. Since joining, I’ve more than tripled the global team and now have over 30 Customer Success rockstars, including leaders, across 4 offices. I could not be more proud of this growth, how we’ve boosted our technical knowledge and I love seeing how the CS program at MongoDB has evolved over the years.
Intern Series: Working on UI/UX Design at MongoDB - Meet Domino Weir
Domino Weir is a Masters student studying Computer Science at Georgia Tech. At MongoDB, Domino overhauled the UI/UX for Evergreen, an internal development testing tool, building on the skills she’s learning in grad school and exploring new ways to use what she’s learned.
Intern Series: Creating a New Brand Design For Campus Recruiting - Meet Erin Rose-Innes
Erin Rose-Innes is a rising senior at the College of Charleston majoring in Marketing with minors in Computer Science and Psychology. This summer, Erin worked at MongoDB as a Brand Design Intern, something outside of her major but wildly within her interests. (The College of Charleston doesn’t offer a Graphic Design major, and except for a single class, everything Erin has learned has been self-taught.)
Intern Series: From Academia to Real-life Programming - Meet Neal Beeken
Neal Beeken is a graduate student finishing up his Master’s Degree in Computer Science at Stony Brook University where he also completed his undergraduate degree. For the past three years, he’s worked as a TA for a low-level programming class. At MongoDB, he worked on the Cloud Monitoring team.
Intern Series: Joining MongoDB’s Data Warehouse Team After Traveling the World - Meet Anya Hargil
Anya Hargil is a Brooklyn native and a rising senior at Princeton University studying Computer Science. Anya is an avid traveler and somewhat of a professional dabbler, having picked up hobbies like rock climbing, rollerblading, and swing dancing. Recently, Anya took a year off from school to travel around Vietnam, India, Thailand, and Israel, and a handful of other countries. At MongoDB, Anya works on the Data Warehouse team.
Stack Overflow Research of 100,000 Developers Finds MongoDB is the Most Wanted Database
It’s well established that developers want to work with a database that offers flexibility, versatility, and ease of use. Scalability and reliability certainly don’t hurt either. For an increasing number of developers, MongoDB is the desired solution to meet all these requirements. And for the second year in a row, this has been validated by the opinions of those who matter most — developers themselves.
The Best Solutions Architects Work At MongoDB
Despite the bravado in the title, the purpose of this article is not to say that MongoDB Solutions Architects (SAs) are better than those working at other organizations. Rather, this article argues that the unique challenges encountered by SAs at MongoDB imply that successful MongoDB SAs are some of the best in the business. This assertion is derived from the unique challenges encountered by both supporting MongoDB customers and the MongoDB sales organization and breadth and depth of skills and knowledge required to be successful.
2017 MongoDB Innovation Award Winners
MongoDB received an overwhelming number of nominations for the fourth annual MongoDB Innovation Awards, recognizing companies who are using MongoDB to dream big and deliver incredibly bold, innovative solutions for their business and industry.
New Compression Options in MongoDB 3.0
MongoDB 3.0 introduces compression with the WiredTiger storage engine. In this post we will take a look at the different options, and show some examples of how the feature works. As always, YMMV, so we encourage you to test your own data and your own application.