Sam Kleinman shares his enthusiasm about joining GlareDB, highlighting the parallels between his past experience with MongoDB and the current opportunities in serverless computing and analytics workloads. He reflects on his career, which includes writing the first major version of the MongoDB manual and working on infrastructure projects like release automation and distributed CI systems. Kleinman is excited about the potential of GlareDB to simplify data usage by allowing developers to work with their existing tools and data, emphasizing the importance of building intuitive systems that reduce developers' peripheral workload. He finds it exhilarating to work in an era where technologies such as Rust, cloud computing, and serverless architecture are reshaping the landscape, and he looks forward to contributing to GlareDB's promising roadmap and collaborating with a talented team.