My MongoDB Journey

Role: Senior Application Engineer

Org: MongoDB Application Modernization Platform (AMP)

Home Office: New York, United States

Impacts:

• Operated as technical lead in high-ambiguity, cross-functional incubators, aligning stakeholders and defining success criteria early.
• Made principal-level scope decisions to deliver an MVP working slice, accelerating measurable value and executive confidence.
• Drove end-to-end delivery in compressed timelines, leading integration and tradeoff decisions to ensure on-time execution.
• Harmonized competing interests with clear communication, proactive SME engagement, and consistent executive updates.
• Reduced architectural risk by establishing repeatable modernization patterns and testable frameworks that teams can sustain.
• Translated field learnings into platform tooling upgrades, improving prompt simplicity, model compatibility, and modularity.
• Strengthened strategic partnerships with sales, solutions, and product to shape a credible modernization narrative.

Watching the launch of AMP as a Senior Application Delivery Consultant

Role: Senior Application Delivery Consultant (Lead Developer)

Org: MongoDB Modernization Factory

Home Office: New York, New York, United States

Impacts:

• Led high-impact incubators delivering AI-powered proof-of-concepts and MVPs.
• Owned technical vision and delivery structure from scoping through kickoff.
• Built roadmaps, defined workstreams, and applied a MongoDB's modernization methodology.
• Led architecture tradeoffs, documented decisions, and aligned stakeholders with clear rationale.
• Unblocked developers, reduced fire drills, and fostered trust between client and internal stakeholders.
• Proactively flagged stakeholder and delivery risks, integrating mitigations into planning.
• Created reusable tooling and runbooks to scale future incubators and modernization efforts.

Serving as your MongoDB Expert

Role: Consulting Engineer

Org: MongoDB Professional Services

Home Office: New York, New York, United States

Impacts:

• Served as a trusted advisor across 30+ clients, including 15+ Fortune 500 organizations.
• Led cross-functional teams across banking, telecom, health care, insurance, and startups.
• Managed end-to-end implementations from portfolio assessment to production operations.
• Delivered training for architects, developers, and operations teams.
• Collaborated with Product and Engineering to shape roadmap direction from client feedback.
• Modernized legacy applications and cloud migrations across MongoDB, Oracle, MS SQL, and CosmosDB.
• Built enterprise-scale architectures using Java, Python, Node.js, and Go.

My first MongoDB World as a Consulting Engineer!