Summary
Rob Walters is a product marketing leader with 10+ years of experience bridging developer platforms, data infrastructure, and go-to-market strategy across companies like MongoDB, Apollo GraphQL, and Aerospike. He blends deep technical credibility—rooted in a BS in Electrical Engineering and early engineering roles at Microsoft and Boeing—with hands-on product management and marketing for streaming, connectors, and cloud services. At MongoDB he shaped IoT and time-series strategies and later moved into product marketing to translate complex technical capabilities into competitive positioning and service offerings. Now contracting as Senior Product Marketing Manager at Aerospike, he focuses on messaging for managed services and cloud products while retaining a product-first perspective. Based in Massachusetts, he also serves his community as a firefighter/paramedic and emergency management coordinator, bringing crisis leadership and operational rigor to his professional work. Colleagues value him for turning technical nuance into compelling market differentiation and for consistently advocating customer needs to engineering and executive teams.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Business Administration, MBA Business Administration at Seattle University
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Michigan State University