NEW YORK, June 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- MongoDB, Inc.
(NASDAQ: MDB), the leading, modern general purpose database
platform, today announced the appointment of Mark Porter as Chief Technology Officer,
effective July 20. Porter will
oversee the office of the CTO and play a key role in driving the
company's technology vision. With this appointment, Porter will
step down from MongoDB's Board of Directors.
Porter joins MongoDB from Grab, Southeast Asia's super app that provides
everyday services such as ride-hailing, food, package, grocery
delivery, mobile payments and financial services to millions of
people. At Grab, Porter was CTO, Core Technology and Transport, and
he led teams across Grab's eight R&D centers in Asia, America and Europe. Prior to Grab, Porter led many Amazon
Web Services' (AWS) database efforts including the AWS Relational
Database Service (RDS), Amazon Aurora and RDS for PostgreSQL, the
AWS Database Migration Service and the AWS Schema Conversion
Tool.
Earlier in his career, Porter was CTO of a division of Newscorp,
a Vice President of Engineering at Oracle Corporation and an early
member of the Oracle Database Kernel group. He began programming at
age 16 and has over three decades of experience in databases,
systems programming, video compression, system performance, and
scalability. Porter is also a named inventor on 11 patents.
"Mark's background in cloud computing, distributed systems and
database engineering, from both a supplier and customer
perspective, is quite rare," said Dev Ittycheria, President &
CEO of MongoDB. "MongoDB has grown very quickly by getting
developers to recognize the power, flexibility, and scalability of
the document model to serve as the foundation of a modern, general
purpose data platform. Mark's vast experience in building leading
data persistence platforms, helping businesses execute for massive
scale, and consuming next-generation technologies is exactly what
we need for our next phase of growth."
"I saw the mainstreaming of the relational database and have
been watching how modern companies consume technology throughout my
career," said Porter. "Companies need to develop applications
faster and easier and MongoDB is the database that developers most
want to use. MongoDB's document model and flexibility are vital for
building modern, mission-critical applications. Instead of scaling
their understanding of multiple interfaces, developers can unlock
the true value of data through MongoDB's unified platform."
About MongoDB
MongoDB is the leading modern, general purpose database
platform, designed to unleash the power of software and data for
developers and the applications they build. Headquartered in
New York, MongoDB has more than
18,400 customers in over 100 countries. The MongoDB database
platform has been downloaded over 110 million times and there have
been more than one million MongoDB University
registrations.
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