Mark Porter
About
Mark Porter is the General Manager of RDS, RDS for PostgreSQL, and the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora – Amazon’s own cloud-native version of PostgreSQL. Mark has been with AWS for 4 years, running various services such as RDS for PostgreSQL, RDS for MySQL, RDS for MariaDB, RDS for Oracle, and RDS for SQL Server, AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), and the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT), among others.
Mark has also been the Director of Engineering for the RDS Platform, the generic code which all of the RDS database engines use to offer the RDS service, as well as leading a great team to deliver all RDS worldwide 24x7 operations, quality assurance and performance testing. Mark has been programming since 11, and professionally since 16. He describes his career as “worshipping the ACID transaction.” Mark has a deep background in databases, systems programming, video compression, system performance and scalability and is the holder of 11 patents. Before Amazon, Mark held positions as CTO of a division of NewsCorp, Vice President of Engineering at Oracle Corporation and an engineer at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in addition to founding and running his own electronics services integration company. Mark holds a Bachelor’s degree from Caltech. He is the proud father and husband in a family of 7, including 5 very technically-savvy children.
Mark Porter has presented the following presentations
AWS Keynote
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PGConf Local: Seattle [PgConf.US]
presented by Mark Porter
National Diamond Sponsor Keynote
Amazon and PostgreSQL: Better together
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PostgresConf US 2018
presented by Mark Porter
Come hear what Amazon has planned for PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, and how we are working with the open source community. You’ll hear about how Amazon is helping customers move from commercial databases to open source ones (especially our favorite elephant-based database) and how we are working to re-think databases to have all the best features of a utility in terms of availability, durability, ...
more Wed 18 2018