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Mark Porter

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CTO : Leader of Engineering, Design, Security, Support, and all things Tech... at dbt Labs
📍 United States

Mark Porter is the CTO of dbt Labs, with decades of experience leading technology teams at MongoDB, Grab, Amazon Web Services, and Oracle. An alumnus of Caltech, he is a deeply technical and insightful leader who has operated some of the worlds largest computer fleets and holds multiple patents.

Outside of his executive roles, Mark is a husband and father to five children, splitting his time between the US and Europe. He is a passionate advocate for building great company cultures and is dedicated to helping women succeed in the tech industry, a cause he highlights personally.

He has been coding professionally since he was 16 years old and founded his own electronics services integration company early in his career.

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Experience
6 Years
Current Role
CTO : Leader of Engineering, Design, Security, Support, and all things Tech...
Job Level
Leadership
Location
United States
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Data & Cloud Infrastructure
His career has centered on databases and cloud services, from leading AWS's RDS and Aurora teams to his CTO roles at MongoDB and now dbt Labs.
Building Tech Culture
He frequently speaks about creating high-performance cultures and believes humans are a more complex and interesting problem to solve than technology.
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Career

Work history

1-2024
CTO : Leader of Engineering, Design, Security, Support, and all things Tech...
dbt Labs
6-2022
Board Member
Superbet
5-2021
Member
New York CTO Club
12-2022 - 6-2024
Member, Board of Directors, Audit Committee
GitLab
3-2019 - 8-2023
CNBC Technology Executive Council Member
CNBC Technology Executive Council
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Education
1984 - 1988
BS
CaltechX | California Institute of Technology
2019 - 2019
Executive Leadership Program
Harvard Business School
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