“I led the team that designed MongoDB’s pioneering user experience."

Let's break this down and I'll explain why he is a total liar and bullshit artist.

This makes it sound like he designed the mongodb query language. Only he could pass off inflicting the crappy Drupal website as designing MongoDB's pioneering user experience. He can't be talking about MongoDB the company, it was 10gen so obviously insinuating it was the DB.

The entire Driver and integrations ecosystem had to be cleaned up. His mess. Was barely ever in the office.

MongoDB user manual? You mean the book that Kristina wrote - who worked on the Server team and had nothing to do with you.

Google search turned up https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/ as the MongoDB user manual.

According to Github, he even contributed to it https://github.com/mongodb/docs/graphs/contributors

There's a lot of evidence that his claims are at least plausible if not credible.

You created a burner account and anonymously keep spreading obscure attacks and lies without any evidence.

I know nothing about the parent comment but to be fair, he has only 12 commits with about 600 total line changes (additions and deletions) which places him 50th on the contributor list. That doesn't mean much in regards to spf13's involvement.

I am giving you concrete examples challenging his version of events. How is that not grounded in reality?

Well, you’re not really giving concrete examples that check out.

> This makes it sound like he designed the mongodb query language.

While I suppose spf13’s LinkedIn page could all be made up, it backs up the claim being made—that you quoted!—which is that he led the team, not that he was responsible for the design. Also, while “user experience” is pretty squishy, nothing suggests he was talking about whatever crappy Drupal web site you think is crappy.

> MongoDB user manual? You mean the book that Kristina wrote

I presume you mean Kristina Chodorow, who wrote MongoDB: The Definitive Guide, which is not the user manual. Again, the LinkedIn page could be entirely banana crazypants, but it says he led the technical writing team, which would have been responsible for the user manual.

Your post has a very, um, personal ring to it, like you were part of one of spf13’s teams and thought he was a bad manager, or maybe came in after he did and “cleaned up his mess.” (Something I’ve found happens virtually any time someone in that kind of position leaves any company, since “mess” can mean “actual mess” or “thing that worked fine but accumulated a lot of technical debt we are now stuck with”.) Maybe he ran over your cat. My point is, nothing you’re pointing to as evidence of him being “a total liar” appears to actually be a lie.

Also, I’m sure he’s sorry about the cat.

They should have their IP blocked because they made a comment you don't like or agree with? That sentiment strikes me as pretty toxic.

I built and led the team that was responsible for the MongoDB user experience. We designed and built MongoDB's integrations with programming languages & third party systems (Drupal, Hadoop, Storm, Spark, etc). Our team wrote the MongoDB user manual too and we were responsible for the websites.

My blog has a lot of talks / posts about the work our team did if you want to read up more about it.

Thanks, appreciate your response! Didn’t occur to me that you were talking about the UX for the entire ecosystem. Will read your blog for more details.

Perhaps Mongo Atlas?

Steve left many years before MongoDB Atlas launched