MongoDB October News Roundup | MongoDB Blog In October 2013, the MongoDB community was active with various events and releases. The company's CEO, Max Schireson, appeared on Bloomberg MoneyMoves, while other notable appearances included talks by co-founder Dwight Merriman at Strata Conference + Hadoop World and the 2013 Web Summit in Dublin. The MongoDB team also released new versions of PyMongo and MongodB Schema Design to Create Indexes. Additionally, MongoDB secured its largest database funding round ever, with ScaleGrid now supporting shards, making it easier for developers to implement scalable solutions.