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Mark Porter is a technology executive who is currently serving as a Field CTO of Cognition. Previously, he has served as CTO of MongoDB and dbt Labs, and as General Manager at Amazon Web Services, where he led Amazon RDS and Aurora. A board director, Caltech engineering graduate, and lifelong programmer, he has been building and leading technology organizations for over three decades.
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Mark Porter is a technology executive with deep roots in databases, infrastructure, developer tools, and now AI. He currently serves as a Field CTO at Cognition. At Cognition, he and the rest of the company are defining and building the future of software engineering, starting with Devin, the world’s first (and best) AI software engineer. Before that, he served as CTO of dbt Labs and, earlier, CTO of MongoDB, where he shaped the long-term technology vision for one of the world’s leading database companies. At Amazon Web Services, he led Amazon RDS, Aurora, and the Database Migration Service. Earlier in his career, Mark held executive roles at Grab (Southeast Asia’s super app), NewsCorp, and Oracle, and was an early member of the Oracle Database Kernel team. He has served on the boards of GitLab and MongoDB, and currently serves on the board of Super Technologies. Mark holds a BS in Engineering and Applied Science from Caltech and has been coding since the age of 11 and professionally since the age of 16. Mark has a soulmate and 5.5 glorious children. All of them live all over the world, and Mark can most often be found on a plane for work or pleasure.
Full Bio
Mark Porter has held a number of technical executive roles across his career. He currently serves as a Field CTO for Cognition, building the future of software engineering - his lifelong passion. He most recently served as Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of dbt Labs, helping companies understand and process their data better. Prior to dbt Labs, Mark was CTO of MongoDB, responsible for crafting the long-term technology roadmap and vision for the company. Before that, Mark was CTO of Core Technology and Transport at Grab, Southeast Asia’s super app, which provides ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery, mobile payments, and financial services to millions of people across the region.
Earlier, Mark spent five-plus years as a General Manager at Amazon Web Services, where he led the Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Aurora, RDS for PostgreSQL, the AWS Database Migration Service, and the AWS Schema Conversion Tool. He has also held roles including CTO of the Amplify division of NewsCorp and Vice President of Engineering at Oracle Corporation, worked at NASA/JPL, and was an early member of the Oracle Database Kernel group.
Mark has had the privilege of taking part in some of the most pivotal changes in technology over the last 4 decades: Relational database technology at Oracle, video compression and serving at Oracle, the cloud revolution and SaaS services at Amazon, and the revolution of making companies’ data useful via analytics, at dbt Labs. Currently, he and the rest of Cognition’s employees are building Devin, the first autonomous AI software engineer - revolutionizing the future of software engineering for companies around the world.
Mark currently serves on the Board of Directors of Super Technologies and has previously served on the boards of GitLab and MongoDB. He holds a BS in Engineering and Applied Science from Caltech, attended Harvard Business School’s Disruptive Innovation course, and has been coding since age 11 and professionally since the age of 16. Mark is married to his soulmate and they have 5.5 glorious children. Mark and Bonnie live in both Europe and the United States, though Mark can most often be found on a plane, at a customer site, or hiking a mountain.