No, Steve that is not accurate. You didn't build MongoDB, Docker or Go. They were all wildly successful before you came on board. It's dishonest of you to insinuate that you built or helped build the core products. I can speak first hand for 10gen. For Docker you were not even there for a year, and for Go Rob was pretty clear who helped build it - Ian, Russ, Adam and a long list of people. You were ancillary involved around the periphery of all these.
Having worked on all these should be good enough you don't need to embellish and constantly overstate and lie about your contributions. Let other people talk about how great you are.
“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.
Jealous? NO. Someone just needed to finally call him out on his bullshit.
He left in the middle of 2014. He was checked out for a long time. I'd say that timeline adds up pretty nicely.
So while Steve would like take credit for Mongo's enterprise adoption he barely had anything to do with it. Not with the Server, not with Cloud, not with Sales, Marketing or Education.
Yeah, he's a consummate self-promoter and exaggerator I was at Mongo at the same time. He worked on the drupal website which was a godawful mess. Then there was the Drivers team. He spent 3 years there, was absent most of the time working on Hugo while employed at Mongo. Mongo probably owns most of the IP for it. I am not sure what he did at Docker but he'd like you to believe the 10 months he spent there was pivotal to docker adoption, nevermind the fact it was already on fire.
Having worked on all these should be good enough you don't need to embellish and constantly overstate and lie about your contributions. Let other people talk about how great you are.