Mark advises >commit and its portfolio founders on technical and management topics. He's been coding since 16, starting on a 4K machine with BASIC and Z80 assembly, and has spent 30+ years building software and fixing broken architectures and teams. Mark served as CTO at dbt Labs, MongoDB and Grab, and as General Manager at AWS, where he ran RDS, Aurora and Postgres across some of the largest fleets on earth. A Caltech engineer, he's also sat on the boards of GitLab, MariaDB and Splyt. He's a husband and dad of five and a half grown kids who's now back in the editor pretty much every day thanks to AI.