



Mark Porter is the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of MongoDB, where he is responsible for crafting the long-term technology roadmap and vision for the company. Mark previously served on the Board of Directors of MongoDB from February 2020 to July 2020, and as of December 2022 serves on the Board of Directors for GitLab, a DevOps platform. He has also served on the Board of Directors of Splyt, a global mobility company, and as a Board Advisor to MariaDB, a database company. Prior to MongoDB, from October 2018 to July 2020, Mark was CTO of Core Technology & Transport at 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. Mark was previously a General Manager at Amazon Web Services, from May 2013 to October 2018, where he led the Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Aurora, and RDS for PostgreSQL, the AWS Database Migration Service, and the AWS Schema Conversion Tool. Prior to Amazon, Mark held various roles including CTO of a division of NewsCorp and Vice President of Engineering at Oracle Corporation, as well as working at NASA/JPL and being an early member of the Oracle Database Kernel group. Mark has been professionally coding since he was 16 years old and founded and ran his own electronics services integration company. He holds a BS in Engineering and Applied Science from Caltech.

Sahir is the Chief Product Officer at MongoDB. He is responsible for Product Management, Product Design, Product Marketing, and Industry Solutions across the MongoDB portfolio. He joined MongoDB in 2016 as SVP, Cloud Products & GTM to lead MongoDB's Cloud Products and Go-to-Market Strategy ahead of the launch of Atlas and helped grow the Cloud business from zero to over $800 million annually. Sahir joined MongoDB from Sumo Logic, a SaaS machine-data analytics company, where he managed platform, pricing, packaging and technology partnerships. Before Sumo Logic, Sahir was the Director of Cloud Management Strategy & Evangelism at VMware where he launched VMware's first organically developed SaaS management product and helped grow the management tools business to over $1B in revenue. Earlier in his career, Sahir held a variety of technical and sales-focused roles at DynamicOps, BMC Software, and BladeLogic.


