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I am humbled to have been able to dedicate my career to the product development, strategic direction, and oversight of companies that affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people. I have decades of experience in leading technology teams and organizations across various domains, including database, cloud, education, and mobility. I have a proven track record of driving innovation, growth, and customer satisfaction in my previous roles as CTO at MongoDB, Grab, and Amplify, as well as General Manager at Amazon Web Services. I've been privileged to help operate some of the largest computer fleets in the world. I have served as a board member, advisor, or investor for several technology companies, such as GitLab (current), MongoDB, MariaDB, and Splyt. I am passionate about building high-performance cultures, fostering collaboration, and solving complex problems with cutting-edge solutions. I've onboarded to new technology areas regularly: device drivers, databases, bus architecture, digital video, concurrency, distributed systems, education, B2C go-to-market, etc. I am a geek; you're just as likely to find me reading the new ARM architecture manual as a culture book or a paper about how attention algorithms in AI actually work. I have 30+ years of technical experience ranging from device-level machine programming, database and systems concurrency and performance, and hardware control to high-level design and architecture responsibility for large development teams. I have run teams up to 1500+. I have built teams from a handful to hundreds multiple times. I've owned P&Ls ranging up to $5B. I'm continually working on my communication and team skills, both written and verbal, including outward-facing presentation, technical and business vendor relationships, press and analyst presentations, and customer negotiations. I have deep debugging and performance background, including code-profiling, contention and operating system internals, and operational tooling. Skilled in patent creation and claims construction, including litigation, depositions and testimony. Passionate about turn-around challenges, organizational development, leadership mentoring, succession management, and creating and maintaining remarkable teams. But, all of that said. It all comes down to people. More than anything above, I'm proudest of the people who I have helped on their journeys and most thankful to those who have helped me on mine. At the end of the day, you have to be on the right bus, have the right people on the bus with you, and treat each other with kindness and respect.
The adoption of AI is one of the most important changes in our lifetimes, and I'm embracing it at the board level, the advisory and coaching level, and personally, writing more code than I have for 25 years and enjoying every commit...
I am privileged to be the leader of Engineering, Product, Design, Docs, Security, Operations, Community, Customer Support, Forward Deployed Engineering, Partner Engineering, and Developer Experience at dbt Labs. I work closely with my peer and colleague Ryan Segar (who leads Product and Product Marketing) and together we comprised the EPD (Engineering, Product, and Design) team. This great team ideates, plans, designs, develops, documents, delivers, and operates all the products which make modern data teams more and more productive for their companies. We help mission-critical customers around the world make better decisions, and do it more reliably and predictably. Since 2016, dbt Labs has been on a mission to help analysts create and disseminate organizational knowledge. dbt Labs pioneered the practice of analytics engineering, built the primary tool in the analytics engineering toolbox, and has been fortunate enough to see a fantastic community coalesce to help push the boundaries of the analytics engineering workflow. Today there are 60,000 teams using dbt every week, 100,000 dbt Community members, and over 5,000 dbt Cloud customers.
When I joined GitLab, we didn't have a CISO or a CTO. I have helped GitLab hire two excellent people into those roles, and also helped GitLab's Audit Committee significantly burn down our MWs and ITGCs over the time I've been here. In addition, GitLab has a truly massive security surface area, and as part of watching over Cyber (as part of the AC), I've worked to bring a culture of security and operational excellence to the teams. All of this wouldn't be possible without a great team of board members and a set of executives at GitLab which gets better every quarter. GitLab's mission is to make it so that everyone can contribute. When everyone can contribute, users become contributors and we greatly increase the rate of innovation. What started in 2011 as an open source project to help one team of programmers collaborate is now the platform millions of people use to deliver software faster, more efficiently, while strengthening security and compliance. Since the beginning, we've been firm believers in remote work, open source, DevOps, and iteration. We get up and log on in the morning (or whenever we choose to start our days) to work alongside the GitLab community to deliver new innovations every month that help teams focus on shipping great code faster, not their toolchain.
Member of the CNBC Technology Executive Council, the premiere council of technology executives (CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, CISOs, etc.) assembled exclusively by CNBC. Members hail from top-tier companies and organizations across sectors and industries. The council, in conjunction with CNBC, leads ongoing high-priority discussions about employing breakthrough technologies to solve problems and power growth while addressing the challenges presented by these innovations.