Robert Richter

Solutions Architect at MongoDB

Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany

About

Experienced software architect, team lead and full stack software engineer. Currently active as Solutions Architect in technology pre-sales at MongoDB. Fun stuff around MongoDB: https://robertrichtermongodb.github.io/mongodbtuneableconsistencyplayground/ https://robertrichtermongodb.github.io/mongodbschemavalidationvisualizer/

Experience

  • Solutions Architect at MongoDB
    Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

    Solutions architect in MongoDB pre-sales / go-to-market team. Main tasks: Strategic Discovery & Gap Analysis: Conducts deep-dive technical discoveries to identify customer strategic goals and current architectural limitations, positioning MongoDB to overcome such limitations. AI & Agentic System Architecture: Help customers to design and implements advanced Generative AI and Agentic AI frameworks, utilizing Atlas Vector Search to power autonomous agents, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architectures, and intelligent data-driven applications. Solution Engineering & Architecture: Architect scalable, multi-cloud data solutions on MongoDB Atlas (AWS, Azure, GCP), ensuring seamless integration into modern application stacks and cloud-native ecosystems. Technical Validation (POV): End-to-end Proof of Value (POV) process, building high-impact prototypes and technical validations that prove MongoDB’s ability to meet customers requirements. Enterprise Modernization: Facilitates the transformation of monolithic legacy systems into modern architectures by helping customers migrating complex relational workloads to MongoDB’s flexible document model. Field-to-Product Intelligence: Technical advocate within the sales cycle, synthesizing market requirements and customer feedback to influence MongoDB’s internal product roadmap and feature prioritization. Platform Optimization: Provides expert-level guidance on schema design, horizontal sharding, and security protocols to ensure the successful deployment of customer systems. Technical interview: Executing technical interviews in our hiring process

  • Varian (5 yrs 9 mos)
    • Sr. Staff Software Architect
      Jan 2024 - Oct 2024 · 10 mos

      Software architect for cloud native SaaS application Noona: https://www.varian.com/products/software/care-management/noona Main Technologies: AWS Services (EC2/ECS, S3, Kinesis, Batch, Glue, Lambda etc.), Kotlin/ Java, Typescript, Angular, Snowflake DWH, Postgres, ActiveMQ, Gitlab, Dynatrace, Splunk - Dealing with patient data (PII/PHI) in context of GDPR/ HIPAA and medical devices regulations - DevOps development principles - Agile development processes - Hybrid monolith / micro-service architecture - Project management and technical project leadership Location: Dresden/ Germany, Working remote with teams in Finland, France, UK, India and USA

    • Sr. Software Architect
      Jun 2021 - Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      Software architect for cloud native SaaS application Noona: https://www.varian.com/products/software/care-management/noona Location: Dresden/ Germany, Working remote with teams in Finland, France, UK, India and USA

    • Team Lead, Noona Data Platform
      Feb 2019 - May 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      Team lead (Engineering manager) of Noona Data Platform Team. Average team size: 6 (internal team members + consultants) Software Engineering / Architecture, Team Leading, DWH (Snowflake) / Data Engineering, Data Privacy / Anonymization, Analytics, Cloud Technologies (Mainly AWS, some Azure) * Implementation of Noona Studies application that was used in multiple research projects in the USA - e.g. https://jpro.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41687-024-00700-4 - and Europe - e.g. https://www.bounce-project.eu/ * Implementation of various analytics and reporting functionalities for Noona product Noona is part of Varian Medical Systems since .10.2018 https://www.varian.com/products/software/care-management/noona Location: Helsinki/ Finland

  • Senior Software Developer at Noona Healthcare
    Sep 2017 - Feb 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Fullstack software development for cloud native SaaS application Noona: https://www.varian.com/products/software/care-management/noona (Part of Varian Medical Systems since .10.2018) Technologies: Java / Kotlin, Angular, Cordova, Postgres DB, AWS, Docker, Spring, Lucene, Hibernate, Liquibase, Typescript, PowerBI Location: Helsinki/ Finland

  • Software Developer at Gimalon AG (ETH Spin-off/ Startup)
    Nov 2015 - Jul 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

    Full-stack hybrid-app development and machine learning in project 'Crowd' Participation in KTI-Project between ETH Zürich and Gimalon AG Core technologies: HTML / CSS / Javascript (CoffeeScript/LiveScript/TypeScript) / Node.js / grpc / Cordova / MongoDB / Redis / Solr / Docker / Google-Cloud / Kubernetes / Python / scitkit-learn Location: Zuerich/ Switzerland

  • Software Developer at Abraxas Informatik AG
    Jan 2015 - Oct 2015 · 10 mos

    Rich-client development for product line 'abx-tax.gov' Core technologies: Java / Hibernate / EclipseRCP / Oracle www.abraxas.ch Location: Zuerich/ Switzerland