Rick Houlihan leads the developer relations team for strategic accounts at MongoDB, where he consults with the company’s largest customers and provides guidance on industry best practices, technology transformation, distributed systems implementation, cloud migration and more. Previously, Rick led the architecture and design effort at Amazon for migrating thousands of relational workloads from RDBMS to NoSQL and built the center of excellence team responsible for defining the best practices and design patterns used today by thousands of Amazon internal service teams and AWS customers.