Katie is a Senior Curriculum Designer at MongoDB. Before joining the Curriculum team, Katie worked on the University Enablement team developing Learning Bytes and instructional materials for the MongoDB for Academia program. Katie also worked within the Digital Learning Division at the Foreign Service Institute where she honed her skills at developing online learning for a global audience. Katie is passionate about making education accessible and engaging for everyone.

Cam is a Senior Technical Instructor at MongoDB where he delivers courses for a wide variety of foundational and advanced topics on the database. Prior to MongoDB, he was a Curriculum Architect designing technical programs for web development, data analytics, and financial technologies for universities all over the country. In a past life he was a Chemist making sure your transformers didn't catch fire.

Emily Pope is a Lead Curriculum Designer at MongoDB. She loves learning and loves making it easy for others to learn how and when to use deeply technical products. Recently, she's been creating AI and vector search content for MongoDB University. Before that, she's created learning experiences on databases, computer science, full stack development, and even clinical trial design and analysis. Emily holds an Ed.M. in International Education Policy from Harvard Graduate School of Education and began her career as an English teacher in Turkiye with the Fulbright program.

Manuel is a Senior Technologist on the Curriculum team at MongoDB. Previously he was a Senior Technical Services Engineer in the Core team at MongoDB. In between Manuel worked as a database reliability engineer at Slack for a little over 2 years and then for Cognite until he re-joined MongoDB. With over 15 years experience in software development and distributed systems, he is naturally curious and holds a Telecommunications Engineering MSc from Vigo University (Spain) and a Free and Open Source Software MSc from Rey Juan Carlos University (Spain).

Sequoyha Pelletier is a Senior Technologist at MongoDB, bringing over 15 years of experience in technical curriculum development and delivery. Before joining MongoDB, he worked in the Worldwide Support team for DataStax, eventually leading the curriculum team for new hire onboarding.

Sequoyha is extremely passionate about providing quality education for free to those in need and enjoys pushing the boundaries of what is considered "normal" practices with delivering educational content.

Colleen is a Curriculum Designer at MongoDB. She holds a Masters degree in English literature from NYU, and is passionate about using writing as a vehicle to teach. She has worked as a writing instructor and ghostwriter, and has spent her career focused on educational content development. For several years, Colleen was the lead editor for The Princeton Review’s “Cracking the SAT” and other test prep books. Prior to MongoDB, she was Senior Managing Editor for boot camp courses on data science and fintech, partnering with subject matter experts to design and deliver courses for learners of all levels.

Julianna is a Senior Curriculum Engineer on the Education team, based in Vancouver, Canada. She’s developed educational content at universities and non-profits for over ten years, and is passionate about supporting access to quality technical education worldwide.

John is a Curriculum Engineer on the University team at MongoDB. Before his work as a Curriculum Engineer, he was an instructor and teaching assistant for coding boot camps at UT (Austin), and UCLA. Additionally, he worked as a QA engineer for a startup called Coder and spent five years at Apple Inc. John is a passionate software engineer and educator who enjoys taking complex topics and making them digestible for the community.

Davenson Lombard is a Senior Software engineer at MongoDB on the Education Team. Prior to that, Davenson was a Technical Services Engineer at MongoDB and a Customer Success architect at Confluent. Davenson holds a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering from Concordia University in Montreal.