Bangkok--19 Oct--
Mark Porter is Chief Technology Officer for Transport at Grab, the leading Online-to-Offline (O2O) mobile platform in Southeast Asia. In this role, Mark oversees Grab's technology infrastructure and teams dedicated to its Transport business, which includes private car hires, taxi-hailing, motorbike taxis, carpooling, multimodal services and more.
Based in Seattle, Mark leads and works with teams in Grab's R&D centers in Singapore, Seattle, Beijing, Bangalore, Jakarta, and Ho Chi Minh City to deliver a reliable, safe, seamless and personalized transport experience for all of Grab's users.
Prior to joining Grab, Mark was a General Manager for 5 years at Amazon Web Services, leading the Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Aurora, RDS for PostgreSQL, the AWS Database Migration Service and the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT). Mark was also the Director of Engineering for the RDS Platform.
Mark has been programming since he was 11 - professionally since he was 16. Mark has a deep background in databases, systems programming, video compression, system performance and scalability and is a named inventor on 11 patents. Before Amazon, Mark held positions as CTO of the Shared Learning Initiative for NewsCorp (a joint project with the Gates Foundation), Vice President of Engineering at Oracle Corporation and engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In addition, Mark founded and ran his own electronics services integration company.
Mark holds a Bachelor's degree from Caltech. He is a proud husband as well as being the father of 5 very technically-savvy children. He loves to ski, sail, read, and is learning to play the piano.