Hi! My name is Mark, and Iām a senior software engineer with over 14+ years of experience in building software intensive systems. My career has pivoted from programmer/developer to people manager and now to CloudOps + DevOps and platform teams. I have worked in many cross-functional engineering roles across startups, scaleups, and fortune 500's, spanning work locations in Sri Lanka, Singapore, Japan, and Norway. I have experience across a spectrum of business domains such as fintech, proptech, energy/oil/gas, ERP systems, supply chain logistics, robotic warehouse automation, and healthcare. As a people manager, I have led multiple engineering teams in building out technical roadmaps, products, and features, that aligned with business north star metrics, drove business growth, and moved the needle on key engineering/business/quality metrics.
My technical expertise spans a variety of languages and tech stacks, beginning in C++ (Win32 development), Java, C#/VB + the wider .NET ecosystem, later to JS/TS/Node based stacks, and recently to .NET core. I have designed and implemented large scale distributed/reactive systems that used high-speed messaging, actor frameworks, domain driven design, micro-service patterns, and event sourcing. I have developed containerized applications running on AWS, managing everything from development to CI/CD pipelines to production deployments + monitoring. I have also migrated systems to AWS Serverless platforms, provisioning cloud infrastructure via Terraform, and utilized monitoring/observability tools such as Datadog, AWS CloudWatch, and ELK.
Occasionally, I post articles on my blog that touch upon interesting lessons from building systems on the cloud, software architecture, system design principles, and engineering leadership.
React
Typescript
Django
Laravel
Facebook
Microsoft
Google
Alibaba
D3
Tencent