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Kimberly Wilkins is the MongoDB Technical Lead at Percona with 20+ years of experience managing and architecting databases
Kimberly has been a Principal Engineer, a solutions architect, a manager, and a DBA. During those roles she has built out and managed expert database teams across multiple data store offerings over her database years. She has worked with Oracle and MongoDB customers of all sizes in many industries and helped them architect, deploy, troubleshoot, and tune their databases to handle heavy workloads and keep their applications running. She specializes in MongoDB sharding to help customers scale and thrive as their businesses grow in today’s big data world. Kimberly enjoys sharing her experiences at technical conferences in the US and abroad. Why? Because after all, “there is no perfect shard key” and there is always more to learn.