Nick Cadenhead, a Senior Consultant at 9th BIT Consulting, shares his experiences transitioning from a software engineering background to working with the Couchbase NoSQL database, despite not being a traditional database specialist. Through his work in sales engineering and proof of concept engagements, he often needed an efficient method to ingest data into Couchbase without extensive coding. Discovering Streamsets, an open-source platform for data ingestion, he found it useful for setting up data pipelines through a graphical interface, connecting data sources to destinations, and automating data handling. However, Couchbase lacked a native data connector in Streamsets, prompting Cadenhead to develop his own using Streamsets' Java-based API, allowing for seamless JSON data ingestion into Couchbase buckets. This solution provided him with quick insights into data flows and pipeline performance, enhancing his ability to support Couchbase implementations without extensive coding, and his connector is now publicly available on GitHub for others to use.