Q & A with Kenny Gorman Data Architect for Shutterfly, Inc.
Thursday, January 6, 2011 at 6:00AM | Derek Stainer Last year we had a post where we broke down Kenny Gorman's presentation from MongoSV. I was fortunate to get some of Kenny's time for a quick question and answer session about his presentation at MongoSV, NoSQL in general and of course MongoDB.
NoSQL DB: Tell us about yourself, what's your role at Shutterfly, what do you do there, etc.
KG: My name is Kenny Gorman, I am a Data Architect at Shutterfly Inc. I am responsible for the design and architecture of our persistent data stores. I have been using Oracle for well over a decade and also ran one of the largest shard'ed PostgreSQL implementations in the world. A huge amount of my real knowledge about Oracle came from my years at Paypal/Ebay where we essentially ran some of the largest and most hardest working Oracle databases anywhere. I really learned a lot from those years in terms of how to do stuff right. It was a total 'dream team' there. I came to Shutterfly to help them move them the next level with some of the data problems they were seeing with the existing Oracle implementation.
Kenny Gorman, MongoDB, MongoSV, Shutterfly 