Speaker: Akshat Vig
Distinguished Engineer @MongoDB, Previously Senior Principal Engineer NoSQL@AWS
Akshat Vig is a Distinguished Engineer at MongoDB, where he works on some of the most difficult distributed systems problems that come with building & operating a global cloud database at scale. Previously, he spent 15 years at Amazon Web Services, where he was part of DynamoDB from its inception and launched multiple AWS database services. He has co-authored several database papers and filed nearly 100 patents. Outside of work, he’s usually running, cycling, skiing, or walking—doing his best to keep up with his family’s pace.
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Keynote
Open Source, Community, and Consequence: The Story of MongoDB
MongoDB with a frustration instead of a business plan. Databases were rigid and getting outpaced by the rest of the tech stack. This frustration resulted in showing up at meetups, passionate arguments on forums, listening, learning, and building in the open.
