Michael Lynn
I'm an AI Adoption Engineer at Cursor. The job is helping engineering teams actually use AI-assisted development, which in practice means writing workshops and education programs and then standing in front of people and running them.
Before that I was at MongoDB for ten years, the last eight as a Principal Developer Advocate, working on data modeling, Atlas, vector search, and retrieval. I hosted the MongoDB Podcast from 2018 until 2024.
The twenty years before MongoDB were infrastructure work. UNIX engineering at Merrill Lynch, then system design and data center migrations at Bank of America, then pre-sales consulting at BMC and Medallia. That is a long time spent on the operations side of other people's rollouts, and it is most of the reason I am wary of tooling that only works in a demo.
I live outside Philadelphia. I paint when I'm not working, mostly acrylic pours, and a fair amount of it ends up on this site.
Where I've worked
Twenty-five years, most of it spent closer to infrastructure than to marketing.
2026 - Present
Cursor
AI Adoption Engineer
Creating and presenting workshops and AI education programs — helping engineering teams and developers adopt AI-assisted development and get the most out of Cursor.
2018 - 2026
MongoDB
Principal Developer Advocate
Devoted to developer enablement focused on Data Modeling, AI, MongoDB Atlas, and Vector Search. Creating labs, workshops, and training programs for practical technology implementation.
2016 - 2018
MongoDB
Senior Solutions Architect
Guided customers in designing scalable systems, led proof of concepts, and developed enablement content for MongoDB's technical teams.
2013 - 2015
Medallia
Solutions Consultant
Led teams in Pre-sales and resell partnerships, developed custom solutions and demonstrations across various industries.
2010 - 2013
BMC Software
Senior Software Consultant
Led pre-sales consulting team, demonstrated server automation and cloud computing solutions to bridge business and IT.
2006 - 2010
Bank of America
Engineering Manager
Led system design and infrastructure integration teams, developed server visibility tools and managed large-scale data center migrations.
2000 - 2006
Merrill Lynch
Vice President, Head of UNIX Engineering
Set UNIX/Linux standards and strategic direction, managed engineering teams responsible for platform standards.
Certifications
MongoDB skill badges. Each one links to the verifiable credential.
From Relational Model (SQL) to MongoDB’s Document Model
MongoDB
MongoDB Schema Design Patterns and Anti-patterns
MongoDB
Building AI-Powered Search with MongoDB Vector Search
MongoDB
Building RAG Apps Using MongoDB
MongoDB
MongoDB Schema Design Optimization
MongoDB
Securing MongoDB Atlas: Authentication & Authorization
MongoDB
Securing MongoDB Self-Managed: Authentication & Authorization
MongoDB
Securing MongoDB Atlas Networking
MongoDB
What I've been building
Public contributions across my repositories over the last year.