Iain Cartledge, a software architect at Bango in Cambridge, U.K., has been named the newest Couchbase Community Champion. At Bango, Cartledge works on scaling their payment platform integrated with various global carriers and payment providers, ensuring it can handle increasing demand while advocating for code quality and coherent design. He has a background in C# and C++ and enjoys playing with technologies like golang and Japanese in his spare time. Cartledge and his team chose Couchbase for its performance benefits in accessing live transactional data quickly, and they developed an atomic transaction pattern to update multiple documents safely. He expresses a desire for more streamlined Docker cluster setups and enhanced console features in Couchbase, as well as an online N1QL sandbox for easier learning. His favorite books include works by Asimov and Stephen King, and he particularly enjoys "The Feynman Lectures" for its engaging approach to modern physics.