Throwing Houlihans at MongoDB with Rick Houlihan

A year or so before the pandemic hit Corey traveled to Australia for a keynote speech. There he crossed paths with the closing keynote which was delivered by Rick Houlihan. Rick, Director Developer Relations for Strategic Accounts at MongoDB, put Corey’s brain through the squeeze over the course of his keynote—and now he is here to expand on how! Rick started at DynamoDB, but made the jump back to MongoDB, and he does so from a position of authenticity and interest. Rick and Corey take a deep and multifaceted dive into the world of all things DB. Rick eases into an honest conversation on where MongoDB is at, his reasons for joining their organization, and the exciting places they are headed.
About Rick
I lead the developer relations team for strategic accounts at MongoDB. My responsibilities include defining technical standards for the global strategic accounts team and consulting with the largest customers and opportunities for the business. My role spans technology sectors and as part of my engagements I routinely provide guidance on industry best practices, technology transformation, distributed systems implementation, cloud migration, and more. I 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. I currently operate as the technical leader for our global strategic account teams to build the market for MongoDB technology by facilitating center of excellence capabilities within our customer organizations through training, evangelism, and direct design consultation activities.


30+ years of software and IT expertise.

9 patents in Cloud Virtualization, Complex Event Processing, Root Cause Analysis, Microprocessor Architecture, and NoSQL Database technology.

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