-: So as a Product Manager I do a lot
of different things from day to day
and what I'm working on might change
over the you know, the course of the month
or change depending on what part
of the product cycle we're in.
So maybe I'm talking a lot with customers
or I'm creating presentations,
I'm doing business planning,
or I'm trying to think about solving technical problems.
Having sort of the choice to do all these different things
and a job that changes a lot day to day
is definitely what attracted me to it,
and one of the things that I like the most about it.
So traditionally databases are almost like Excel sheets.
They have a lot row and columns,
and regardless of what your application looks like,
you know, website or mobile application
or you know, a little device that collects telemetry,
you have to take that data and force it into
a set of rows and columns.
What makes our database unique
is that the format that the data's stored in
is a set of documents
and many times this is more adaptive
to what the data looks like on the application.
So you create some data on your application
and you pass it straight to the database.
When you need that data again
you can pull it directly out of the database,
and having that seamless experience when you're programming
it lets people create things on top of our database
a little bit more easily,
and that's really how we differentiate ourselves
from other players in the space.
Yeah, one of the things about databases
is that really whatever you're building,
if it interacts with the web,
it requires some sort of database.
So we work with everything from oil and gas companies
to media companies, game companies,
really it's across the spectrum.
So everything from you know, a more traditional company
like KPMG to we work with the company that does Fortnite,
which is a very popular video game.
And it's really everything in between.
So one of the things that I really love
is being able to see these different companies,
how they approach data,
how they approach building products
from a technical perspective,
and get that exposure has been really interesting.
Now I do a lot of travel that's either
customer focused or presentation focused.
We do a lot of conferences.
So I'll travel maybe once or twice a month,
and it, you know really depends on
where the customers are,
where we can talk to developers.
So I do a lot of Bay area, Seattle.
In the past year I've also done London, Tel Aviv,
Munich, Australia.
So that's been something that's been really enjoyable.