The 5-Minute Interview: Matthew Harris, CTO of Patheer` Matthew Harris, the CTO of Patheer, discussed the company's use of Neo4j to map skills to careers and help people advance their careers. He attributed the choice of Neo4j to its ease of programming languages, community support, and APIs available. The scalability and frequent upgrades of Neo4j have been particularly surprising and beneficial for Patheer. Harris reflected on how his initial skepticism towards NoSQL databases was replaced by understanding the purposes of graph databases and their suitability for relating things together. He emphasized that graph databases are ideal for applications based on people and relationships, such as those found in careers and networking, making them a better choice than relational databases like RDBMS.