David O'Dowd, a Technical Program Manager at MongoDB, has been instrumental in delivering key initiatives across the company's DevOps Tools and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) programs. He has successfully partnered with product and engineering executives to drive growth and innovation, establishing a long-term backend engineering vision for Atlas and mentoring team members. The DevOps Tools program aims to create seamless connections between MongoDB's products and customers' diverse DevOps landscapes, while the SOA program focuses on aligning over 150 projects towards a macroservices vision to enhance feature delivery pace and improve customer-visible reliability. David's work emphasizes the importance of human connections in technology, breaking down barriers between teams and departments to deliver smoother collaborative processes. His journey at MongoDB has been about empowering teams, connecting technologies, and helping customers achieve more through the company's developer data platform.