Summary
Senior Manager, Curriculum Designer at MongoDB who connects instructional design, people leadership and technical delivery into practical learning programmes. Leads a team of curriculum engineers across Skills content, short-form learning, self-serve practice environments and agent-ready hands-on learning — turning complex and emerging technologies such as databases, vector search, AI and agentic workflows into learning that developers, decision makers and internal teams actually use.
Experience
Senior Manager, Curriculum Designer — MongoDB
Mar 2021 – Present
Previously: Lead, Curriculum Designer (2025–2026) · Senior Curriculum Designer (2022–2025) · Curriculum Designer (2021–2022)
- Lead the Curriculum Development & Labs team, delivering MongoDB Skills and hands-on learning across the product portfolio with over 1.6 million skill badges issued to date.
- Owned delivery of 7+ Skill programmes released in 2026, spanning Data Resilience, Memory for AI Applications, Building an App with Code Agents and Decision Maker education.
- Co-planned the Skill Badge portfolio, scoping new badges in AI, core database topics and new products.
- Designed and shipped Lab Sandboxes, MongoDB's scenario-based practice environment with state-based checks and AI guidance, and drove the evolution of labs into AI-native, agent-ready workflows reused across self-paced learning, DevRel workshops and customer evaluations.
- Sustained 4.5+/5 learner ratings across the top-25 lab portfolio (40K–50K plays per month).
Content Developer — NIIT Limited
Sep 2019 – Mar 2021
PhD Candidate — Maynooth University
Sep 2015 – Oct 2019
Undergraduate Tutor, English Literature — Maynooth University
Sep 2015 – Sep 2017
Departmental Exam & Essay Marker — Maynooth University
Sep 2015 – Sep 2017
Education
PhD, English Literature — Maynooth University
2015 – 2019
M.A., English Literature — Maynooth University, First Class Honours (1.1)
2014 – 2015
B.A., English & Philosophy (Double Honours) — Maynooth University, First Class Honours (1.1)
2011 – 2014
Skills
- Team leadership & people development
- Curriculum strategy & instructional design
- Programme & project management
- Outcome-based assessment & skills validation
- AI & agentic workflows (GitHub Copilot, vector search, RAG)
- MongoDB Atlas & mongosh
- Hands-on lab platforms (Instruqt)
- AI-native / agent-ready learning design
- Jira, GitHub, Markdown, Google Docs & Slides
- Technical writing & editing