Mark Porter

I joined the board in 2019 and then got so excited with the company and its potential and the fact that fundamentally MongoDB had the chance to change the world that I actually asked to step off the board and step up as CTO.

But what got me going was the fact that we had this product that a lot of people didn't know about and still to this day, market awareness is something we're working on every day and is fundamentally a different product. It is a distributed system that performs database transactions as opposed to a single system that tries to be distributed.

But what got me going was the fact that we had this product that a lot of people didn't know about and still to this day, market awareness is something we're working on every day and is fundamentally a different product. It is a distributed system that performs database transactions as opposed to a single system that tries to be distributed.

But what got me going was the fact that we had this product that a lot of people didn't know about and still to this day, market awareness is something we're working on every day and is fundamentally a different product. It is a distributed system that performs database transactions as opposed to a single system that tries to be distributed.

And so my MVP when I came on board was this product, which frankly was magical and had so many capabilities that people didn't know about. And so I focused my energy in two main areas since I joined. Area one is growing the team. We've more than doubled the team since I grew the engineering team and growing it as a healthy team with healthy culture and keeping the tech moving forward.

And so my MVP when I came on board was this product, which frankly was magical and had so many capabilities that people didn't know about. And so I focused my energy in two main areas since I joined. Area one is growing the team. We've more than doubled the team since I grew the engineering team and growing it as a healthy team with healthy culture and keeping the tech moving forward.

And so my MVP when I came on board was this product, which frankly was magical and had so many capabilities that people didn't know about. And so I focused my energy in two main areas since I joined. Area one is growing the team. We've more than doubled the team since I grew the engineering team and growing it as a healthy team with healthy culture and keeping the tech moving forward.

And a second area for me personally has been really helping get the message of MongoDB out into the marketplace with talking with marvelous people like you and just getting that message out that MongoDB is different.

And a second area for me personally has been really helping get the message of MongoDB out into the marketplace with talking with marvelous people like you and just getting that message out that MongoDB is different.

And a second area for me personally has been really helping get the message of MongoDB out into the marketplace with talking with marvelous people like you and just getting that message out that MongoDB is different.

This is fun, and this was an area that I spent a lot of time on. So I started my career at Oracle doing enterprise class databases back in the 1980s and 90s. I then went to AWS and ran one of the largest enterprise class fleets of databases in the world, RDS.

This is fun, and this was an area that I spent a lot of time on. So I started my career at Oracle doing enterprise class databases back in the 1980s and 90s. I then went to AWS and ran one of the largest enterprise class fleets of databases in the world, RDS.

This is fun, and this was an area that I spent a lot of time on. So I started my career at Oracle doing enterprise class databases back in the 1980s and 90s. I then went to AWS and ran one of the largest enterprise class fleets of databases in the world, RDS.

And I then went to a consumer company, Grab, where we were serving 650 million Southeast Asians, serving over 15 million rides, meals, transactions per day. And so mission critical is in my blood, frankly. When I came to MongoDB, we had this great product, but I wanted to have the team feel comfortable with really focusing on what I call the layers of the onion.

And I then went to a consumer company, Grab, where we were serving 650 million Southeast Asians, serving over 15 million rides, meals, transactions per day. And so mission critical is in my blood, frankly. When I came to MongoDB, we had this great product, but I wanted to have the team feel comfortable with really focusing on what I call the layers of the onion.

And I then went to a consumer company, Grab, where we were serving 650 million Southeast Asians, serving over 15 million rides, meals, transactions per day. And so mission critical is in my blood, frankly. When I came to MongoDB, we had this great product, but I wanted to have the team feel comfortable with really focusing on what I call the layers of the onion.

And the layers of that onion are security, durability, correctness for a database, of course. Availability, it's always up. Scalability, it can scale when you need to. And operability, meaning that in this world of services, it's operable. Now, all of those things come before the shiny new feature. Now, customers are going to come to you and they're going to say, I want that shiny new feature.

And the layers of that onion are security, durability, correctness for a database, of course. Availability, it's always up. Scalability, it can scale when you need to. And operability, meaning that in this world of services, it's operable. Now, all of those things come before the shiny new feature. Now, customers are going to come to you and they're going to say, I want that shiny new feature.

And the layers of that onion are security, durability, correctness for a database, of course. Availability, it's always up. Scalability, it can scale when you need to. And operability, meaning that in this world of services, it's operable. Now, all of those things come before the shiny new feature. Now, customers are going to come to you and they're going to say, I want that shiny new feature.

I want that new capability or that new API call. But they assume that you're dealing with security, durability, correctness, availability, scalability, and operability, the six internal layers of the onion. And if you don't focus on those, then you've betrayed the people who put their trust in you. And so when I came to MongoDB,