I am humbled to have been able to dedicate my career to the product development, strategic direction, and oversight of companies that affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people. I have decades of experience in leading technology teams and organizations across various domains, including database, cloud, education, and mobility.I have a proven track record of driving innovation, growth, and customer satisfaction in my previous roles as CTO at MongoDB, Grab, and Amplify, as well as General Manager at Amazon Web Services. I've been privileged to help operate some of the largest computer fleets in the world. I have served as a board member, advisor, or investor for several technology companies, such as GitLab (current), MongoDB, MariaDB, and Splyt. I am passionate about building high-performance cultures, fostering collaboration, and solving complex problems with cutting-edge solutions. I've onboarded to new technology areas regularly: device drivers, databases, bus architecture, digital video, concurrency, distributed systems, education, B2C go-to-market, etc. I am a geek; you're just as likely to find me reading the new ARM architecture manual as a culture book or a paper about how attention algorithms in AI actually work. I have 30+ years of technical experience ranging from device-level machine programming, database and systems concurrency and performance, and hardware control to high-level design and architecture responsibility for large development teams. I have run teams up to 1500+. I have built teams from a handful to hundreds multiple times. I've owned P&Ls ranging up to $5B. I'm continually working on my communication and team skills, both written and verbal, including outward-facing presentation, technical and business vendor relationships, press and analyst presentations, and customer negotiations. I have deep debugging and performance background, including code-profiling, contention and operating system internals, and operational tooling. Skilled in patent creation and claims construction, including litigation, depositions and testimony. Passionate about turn-around challenges, organizational development, leadership mentoring, succession management, and creating and maintaining remarkable teams.But, all of that said. It all comes down to people. More than anything above, I'm proudest of the people who I have helped on their journeys and most thankful to those who have helped me on mine. At the end of the day, you have to be on the right bus, have the right people on the bus with you, and treat each other with kindness and respect.