--- title: "Sheila Sitaram - MotherDuck Blog" description: "Sheila joins us from MongoDB where she led Customer Strategy within the go-to-market organization. Previously, she was a marketing leader at HashiCorp, management consultant at PwC, and creative director, producer, and 'renaissance woman' working with leading fashion and luxury brands to turn creative tailwinds into commercial impact." canonical: "https://motherduck.com/authors/sheila-sitaram/" --- # Sheila Sitaram Sheila Sitaram's photo Product Lead Sheila joins us from MongoDB where she led Customer Strategy within the go-to-market organization. Previously, she was a marketing leader at HashiCorp, management consultant at PwC, and creative director, producer, and 'renaissance woman' working with leading fashion and luxury brands to turn creative tailwinds into commercial impact. ## 13 BLOG POSTS AND VIDEOS [2026/08/10 - Adithya Krishnan, Sheila Sitaram, Garrett O'Brien](/blog/agent-signup/) ### [Agents can sign up for MotherDuck](/blog/agent-signup) AI agents can now sign up for MotherDuck with a single API call - no forms, no credentials, no human in the loop (unless you want to be, of course). Experiment faster, share data, or just give your agents a ducking fast set of tools for analytics. [2026/03/31 - Louisa Huang, Jelte Fennema-Nio, Sheila Sitaram, Garrett O'Brien](/blog/motherduck-now-speaks-postgres/) ### [MotherDuck Now Speaks Postgres](/blog/motherduck-now-speaks-postgres) MotherDuck's Postgres endpoint lets you query your data warehouse using any PostgreSQL-compatible client, driver, or BI tool — no new dependencies needed. [2026/02/04 - Sheila Sitaram, Joseph Hwang, Nicholas Greenspan](/blog/point-in-time-restore/) ### [More Control, Less Hassle: Self-Serve Recovery with Point-in-Time Restore](/blog/point-in-time-restore) MotherDuck now supports point-in-time restores, making it easier than ever to roll back changes, undrop databases, and debug pipelines. [2025/09/24 - Garrett O'Brien, Sheila Sitaram](/blog/motherduck-in-europe/) ### [MotherDuck is Landing in Europe! Announcing our EU Region](/blog/motherduck-in-europe) Serverless analytics built on DuckDB, running entirely in the EU. [2025/06/01 - Sheila Sitaram](/blog/announcing-duckdb-13-on-motherduck-cdw/) ### [DuckDB 1.3 Lands in MotherDuck: Performance Boosts, Even Faster Parquet, and Smarter SQL](/blog/announcing-duckdb-13-on-motherduck-cdw) DuckDB 1.3 has launched, with performance boosts, faster Parquet reads and writes, and new SQL syntax for ducking awesome analytics with full support in MotherDuck. Read on for highlights from this major release. [2025/02/11 - Sheila Sitaram](/blog/introducing-motherduck-for-business-analytics/) ### [MotherDuck for Business Analytics: GDPR, SOC 2 Type II, Tiered Support, and New Plan Offerings](/blog/introducing-motherduck-for-business-analytics) Introducing new features designed to better support businesses looking for their first data warehouse, including SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance, tiered support, read scaling, and a new Business Plan. [2025/02/05 - Sheila Sitaram](/blog/announcing-duckdb-12-on-motherduck-cdw/) ### [MotherDuck Now Supports DuckDB 1.2: Faster, Friendlier, Better Performance](/blog/announcing-duckdb-12-on-motherduck-cdw) DuckDB 1.2 has launched, with improvements in performance, the SQL experience, CSV handling, and scalability - all fully supported in MotherDuck! [2024/12/21 - Sheila Sitaram](/blog/data-warehouse-feature-roundup-dec-2024/) ### [What’s New: Streamlined User Management, Metadata, and UI Enhancements](/blog/data-warehouse-feature-roundup-dec-2024) December’s feature roundup is focused on improving the user experience on multiple fronts. Introducing the User Management REST API, the Table Summary, and a read-only MD_INFORMATION_SCHEMA for metadata. [2024/12/09 - Sheila Sitaram](/blog/motherduck-vercel-marketplace-native-integration/) ### [The Serverless Backend for Analytics: Introducing MotherDuck’s Native Integration on Vercel Marketplace](/blog/motherduck-vercel-marketplace-native-integration) MotherDuck's native integration is now available on Vercel Marketplace. Developers can finally streamline their application maintenance overhead when building embedded analytics components and data apps. Start building with templates and a demo app! [2024/11/25 - Sheila Sitaram](/blog/data-warehouse-feature-roundup-nov-2024/) ### [Improved Control and Ergonomics on MotherDuck](/blog/data-warehouse-feature-roundup-nov-2024) November's Feature Roundup focuses on efficient query control and ergonomics. Now that's something to flap your wings about! Read on for updates on query management, in-memory performance, and connection management. [2024/10/19 - Sheila Sitaram](/blog/small-data-sf-recap/) ### [Small Data is bigger (and hotter 🔥) than ever](/blog/small-data-sf-recap) Catch up on the latest developments around simple, scalable workflows for Real data volumes from the first Small Data SF! [2024/08/29 - Sheila Sitaram](/blog/small-data-sf-workshops-agenda/) ### [Small Data SF: The Agenda is now live…with *NEW* hands-on workshops](/blog/small-data-sf-workshops-agenda) We had such an awesome response to Small Data SF after launch: It was so great that we decided to add an additional day of hands-on workshops! Learn more about the full lineup on 9/23 - 9/24 and grab a ticket before it's too late. [2024/07/18 - Sheila Sitaram, MotherDuck team](/blog/small-data-manifesto/) ### [The Small Data Manifesto](/blog/small-data-manifesto) Read through the key principles and ethos behind the Small Data movement. Small data and AI is more powerful than you think. Data and AI that was once "Big" can now be handled by a single machine. ## SUBSCRIBE ### Subscribe to MotherDuck Blog Also subscribe to other MotherDuck updates Submit