The appointment of Porter, beforehand CTO of MongoDB, comes as the info transformation chief expands its management staff and experiences sustained buyer and group development 

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — dbt Labs, the pioneer in analytics engineering, immediately introduced the appointment of Mark Porter as Chief Technology Officer. Porter will lead dbt Labs’ engineering group together with the event, analysis and infrastructure groups, supporting mission-critical prospects all over the world. He may also drive the long run technical course of the corporate – a pivotal function as the corporate stays on the forefront of innovation throughout the trendy information stack whereas buyer adoption surges.

“Mark has scaled and run many successful engineering organizations, and brings relevant experience on the commercial open source journey, ” mentioned Tristan Handy, founder and CEO of dbt Labs. “Not only is Mark an experienced, customer-focused engineering leader, he is a deeply human leader as well. It’s been an absolute pleasure to get to know him, and I’m excited to have him as a champion of our values as we scale the company.”

A knowledge trade veteran with greater than three a long time of expertise and in-depth data of open supply, Porter at the moment serves on the board of administrators at GitLab. He was most just lately the Chief Technology Officer at MongoDB, the place he scaled its engineering group whereas spearheading the long-term know-how roadmap and imaginative and prescient for the corporate. He beforehand held CTO positions at Grab and at Amplify, a division of News Corp, along with government positions main database groups at Amazon Web Services and Oracle Corporation. Porter started programming professionally at age 16, and is called inventor on 15 patents.

“I’ve followed dbt Labs for quite some time, and have seen first-hand just how integral dbt has become to the modern data stack,” mentioned Porter. “I jumped at the chance to come on board and work with a team that matched my passion for both data driven innovation and cultivating a high-performance culture. I look forward to contributing to the company’s next phase of growth.”

Porter’s appointment comes at a time of notable momentum for dbt Labs, together with:

• Accelerated Customer Growth: Increased whole dbt Cloud buyer depend to greater than 4,100, together with Anheuser-Busch Group, Boston Consulting Group, Fanduel, Fifth Third Bank, Roche, Siemen’s, Under Armour and Urban Outfitters.
• Strengthened Community: The dbt group has surpassed 100,000 members, every devoted to testing the boundaries of the analytics engineering workflow.
• Expanded Leadership Team: Porter joins on the heels of just lately launched President and Chief Operating Officer Brandon Sweeney, who joined the corporate in November 2023.
• New Dublin, Ireland Office: A brand new workplace in Dublin will open in February 2024 to help the corporate’s international development. Located within the Docklands with area for 30 staff, the workplace might be primarily targeted on the go-to-market group.

To study extra about open positions at dbt Labs, go to: https://www.getdbt.com/dbt-labs/open-roles

About dbt Labs
Since 2016, dbt Labs has been on a mission to assist analysts create and disseminate organizational data. dbt Labs pioneered the apply of analytics engineering, constructed the first software within the analytics engineering toolbox, and has been lucky sufficient to see a improbable group coalesce to assist push the boundaries of the analytics engineering workflow. Today there are 30,000 corporations utilizing dbt each week, 100,000 dbt Community members, and over 4,100 dbt Cloud prospects.

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