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Deutsche Bank has added some new members to its Distinguished Engineers group.

How does your career in banking technology evolve?

Summary: Jakob Nielsen has worked in user experience since 1983. Much has changed, including his own journey from academia to practice, but the mission remains the same: to make computers suitable and pleasant for humans. I started working in user experience in 1983 — 41 years ago at the time of this writing. People often ask me why and how I got into usability. For the full story, we have to go back much further. I Was a Space Age Baby All the world’s newspapers carried the same headline t...

I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I…

So, how do you continuously improve corporate culture — and, in this case, an engineering culture — that inspires people to do their best work every day?

What advice would you give to someone starting their career in IT/tech? “To truly embrace what makes you different—because it is the very thing that makes you strong.”

Tyler has published about 130 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in the fields of hydrology and hydrogeology.

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Mark Porter is CTO at MongoDB, and a technologist with broad interests and a deep history in software leadership and practice. Porter joined MongoDB at the beginning of 2020, after serving as CTO at Grab, a ride-sharing, delivery, and mobile payments “superapp” company based in Singapore. Before that, he spent nine years building Amazon RDS

MongoDB CTO Mark Porter discusses relational snobbery, the triumph of JSON, the importance of trust, how companies mismanage developers, and how the third tier needs to evolve.