Mark Porter

Helping customers 10x their development speed, predictability, reliability, and security with Devin, your AI team member.

>commit backs commercial open-source founders at the earliest stage, fueled by a 100+ strong community of open-source founders (e.g. Supabase, Hugging Face, Nginx), bottom-up GTM experts, and enterprise CTOs. We also have a an agentic stack that spots promising open-source projects before the market does.

At Super, we're building the future playstack: the technology powering the next generation of sports, gaming, and fan experiences. We partner with iconic brands and excite vibrant communities of sports fans all over the world. We build world-class tech to keep the systems running, secure, responsive, and correct. We personalize and localize our experiences so you can enjoy your own version of the fan experiences. As a board member, I'm delighted to be part of supporting and growing the European tech ecosystem, with offices in Zagreb, Bucharest, Cluj, Madrid, London, and others.

The adoption of AI is one of the most important changes in our lifetimes, and I'm embracing it at the board level, the advisory and coaching level, and personally, writing more code than I have for 25 years and enjoying every commit...

I am privileged to be the leader of Engineering, Product, Design, Docs, Security, Operations, Community, Customer Support, Forward Deployed Engineering, Partner Engineering, and Developer Experience at dbt Labs. I work closely with my peer and colleague Ryan Segar (who leads Product and Product Marketing) and together we comprised the EPD (Engineering, Product, and Design) team. This great team ideates, plans, designs, develops, documents, delivers, and operates all the products which make modern data teams more and more productive for their companies. We help mission-critical customers around the world make better decisions, and do it more reliably and predictably. Since 2016, dbt Labs has been on a mission to help analysts create and disseminate organizational knowledge. dbt Labs pioneered the practice of analytics engineering, built the primary tool in the analytics engineering toolbox, and has been fortunate enough to see a fantastic community coalesce to help push the boundaries of the analytics engineering workflow. Today there are 60,000 teams using dbt every week, 100,000 dbt Community members, and over 5,000 dbt Cloud customers.

When I joined GitLab, we didn't have a CISO or a CTO. I have helped GitLab hire two excellent people into those roles, and also helped GitLab's Audit Committee significantly burn down our MWs and ITGCs over the time I've been here. In addition, GitLab has a truly massive security surface area, and as part of watching over Cyber (as part of the AC), I've worked to bring a culture of security and operational excellence to the teams. All of this wouldn't be possible without a great team of board members and a set of executives at GitLab which gets better every quarter. GitLab's mission is to make it so that everyone can contribute. When everyone can contribute, users become contributors and we greatly increase the rate of innovation. What started in 2011 as an open source project to help one team of programmers collaborate is now the platform millions of people use to deliver software faster, more efficiently, while strengthening security and compliance. Since the beginning, we've been firm believers in remote work, open source, DevOps, and iteration. We get up and log on in the morning (or whenever we choose to start our days) to work alongside the GitLab community to deliver new innovations every month that help teams focus on shipping great code faster, not their toolchain.

Member of the CNBC Technology Executive Council, the premiere council of technology executives (CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, CISOs, etc.) assembled exclusively by CNBC. Members hail from top-tier companies and organizations across sectors and industries. The council, in conjunction with CNBC, leads ongoing high-priority discussions about employing breakthrough technologies to solve problems and power growth while addressing the challenges presented by these innovations.

Concentrations in Systems Programming, Computer Graphics, Electronic Project Design. Worked full-time all years I attended. First, for the US Dept of Education building financial instructional programs in Pascal, then for for NASA/JPL managing the computer infrastructure for a semiconductor research lab (Section 346). Formal degree is Engineering and Applied Science as Caltech didn't yet offer an accredited CS degree (!).

Participated in (and passed...) 12-week customized leadership program for executives. The course was based on Clay Christensen's Disruptive Innovation approach as well as lectures and readings assigned by Harvard professors.

During this year, took senior- and graduate-level courses in robotics, math, electronics, logic design and computer programming language design and implementation. Wrote a 75k loc world simulation program for one course in Turbo Pascal and 8086 assembly.