Well, you’re not really giving concrete examples that check out.
> This makes it sound like he designed the mongodb query language.
While I suppose spf13’s LinkedIn page could all be made up, it backs up the claim being made—that you quoted!—which is that he led the team, not that he was responsible for the design. Also, while “user experience” is pretty squishy, nothing suggests he was talking about whatever crappy Drupal web site you think is crappy.
> MongoDB user manual? You mean the book that Kristina wrote
I presume you mean Kristina Chodorow, who wrote MongoDB: The Definitive Guide, which is not the user manual. Again, the LinkedIn page could be entirely banana crazypants, but it says he led the technical writing team, which would have been responsible for the user manual.
Your post has a very, um, personal ring to it, like you were part of one of spf13’s teams and thought he was a bad manager, or maybe came in after he did and “cleaned up his mess.” (Something I’ve found happens virtually any time someone in that kind of position leaves any company, since “mess” can mean “actual mess” or “thing that worked fine but accumulated a lot of technical debt we are now stuck with”.) Maybe he ran over your cat. My point is, nothing you’re pointing to as evidence of him being “a total liar” appears to actually be a lie.
> This makes it sound like he designed the mongodb query language.
While I suppose spf13’s LinkedIn page could all be made up, it backs up the claim being made—that you quoted!—which is that he led the team, not that he was responsible for the design. Also, while “user experience” is pretty squishy, nothing suggests he was talking about whatever crappy Drupal web site you think is crappy.
> MongoDB user manual? You mean the book that Kristina wrote
I presume you mean Kristina Chodorow, who wrote MongoDB: The Definitive Guide, which is not the user manual. Again, the LinkedIn page could be entirely banana crazypants, but it says he led the technical writing team, which would have been responsible for the user manual.
Your post has a very, um, personal ring to it, like you were part of one of spf13’s teams and thought he was a bad manager, or maybe came in after he did and “cleaned up his mess.” (Something I’ve found happens virtually any time someone in that kind of position leaves any company, since “mess” can mean “actual mess” or “thing that worked fine but accumulated a lot of technical debt we are now stuck with”.) Maybe he ran over your cat. My point is, nothing you’re pointing to as evidence of him being “a total liar” appears to actually be a lie.
Also, I’m sure he’s sorry about the cat.