Originally from Houston, Texas, I relocated to Seattle four years ago, mainly for its great access to the outdoors. I am still impressed by its natural beauty everyday. I have worked in technology for my entire career, starting out in implementation and moving into a technical sales role. I love seeing that aha moment in our customers when they start to realize that there just might be a better approach to solving their business challenges. I have worked at MongoDB for a little under a year. With so many variations in architecture patterns deployed by our customers, with all of them touching the database layer, there is never a dull moment!