About

I’m a builder and technical leader with a long career at the intersection of databases, streaming data, and developer infrastructure.

Currently I’m Principal Product Manager for Streaming at MongoDB, focused on Atlas Stream Processing — real-time data pipelines at scale.

Background

I co-founded Eventador.io, an enterprise streaming platform built on Apache Kafka and Flink. Eventador was acquired by Cloudera in 2020, where I served as Principal Architect for Streaming Analytics.

Before that I co-founded ObjectRocket, a managed MongoDB hosting service acquired by Rackspace in 2012. At Rackspace I served as Chief Technologist for Data.

Earlier in my career I scaled Hi5’s infrastructure from a handful of servers to dozens handling multi-terabyte workloads — a crash course in database engineering under pressure.

Open Source

I’m an early MongoDB adopter (former Mongo Master) and have contributed tooling to both the MongoDB and PostgreSQL communities, including mongostat and pgstat2. I hold an Oracle Certified Professional certification (v8, for the archaeologists).

Interests

Databases, streaming architectures, AI agents, and the craft of shipping software. I write about what I’m building and learning — find it all on this site or on Medium.

You can also find me on GitHub and LinkedIn.