Jim Blackhurst is a Distinguished Solutions Architect at MongoDB, with over 20 years of experience designing and delivering distributed data systems. He currently works with MongoDB’s AMP team, helping some of the world’s largest organizations modernize their application estates through purpose-built AI Modernization Factories, liberating them from the grip of legacy technologies. Before joining MongoDB, Jim spent his career in the video game industry, architecting and operating backend systems for some of the most iconic global gaming brands and working with data at scale before “scale” became a thing. Jim lives in London, UK.