Mark Wolfe

I have spent the last 25 years working in the software industry, across operations, software development and leadership. I have worked across a number of industries with experience in telecommunications, government, internet of things (IoT) and cloud. Most of my career has been walking the line between consulting or product development, having worked between these two specialisations in a number of organisations.

More recently I have spent the last 8 years working with Versent, an AWS premier consulting partner based in Australia. I have worked in a number of roles initially in the consulting business, then in a product business called Stax.

At Versent, my primary focus was AWS, initially assisting enterprise customers with cloud migrations, then providing direction and support to teams as they worked with customers in AWS.

I have a passion for creating and supporting teams of software developers. My primary goal is to keep projects on track while ensuring no team member is left behind. I have successfully delivered projects and products for some of the largest enterprises in Australia, working in partnership with AWS.

More recently I have been focusing on data processing, AI, and Machine Learning in my spare time.

Recent Professional Experience

Versent 8 yrs

  • Lead Engineer - VMR
    Sep 2023 - Present · 7 mos

    Uplifting operations for serverless applications, reviewing architecture, implementing vulnerability management, monitoring and alerting, and supporting the teams.

  • Stax - Engineering Lead
    Jun 2020 - Sep 2023 · 3 yrs 4 mos

    Founding team members of Stax, was responsible for bootstrapping new teams, supporting, and mentoring developers. Also responsible for the product architecture, and development of key parts of the product related to authentication, user interface and also supporting the teams while completing PCI, and SOC2 compliance.

  • Cloud Practice Director (South)
    Sep 2017 - Jun 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    Supported the creation, onboarding of consulting teams while establishing the right skills and processes to work with customers. Also supported teams in adopting tools, architecture and processes to migrate customers into the cloud.

  • Digital and Cloud Consultant
    Aug 2015 - Jun 2020 · 4 yrs 11 mos

    Worked on a variety of projects from proof of concepts to production cloud migrations for large enterprises. Helped a variety of customers including large enterprises, government, and startups migrating into AWS. Supported development teams as their infrastructure moved to the cloud, rebuilding CI/CD, migrating to ec2, containers or serverless, while ensuring this was done in line with compliance and security best practices.

For a full list see https://www.linkedin.com/in/wolfeidau/.

Skills

I primarily work on serverless, and container based solutions, with a focus on ensuring developers, operations and security work together to deliver safe and reliable products. I primarily work with AWS, but also work with other cloud services from time to time.

As a member of a team I focus on:

  • Communication
  • Writing
  • Data analysis
  • Listening
  • Leadership

Building software using:

  • Go
  • JavaScript/Typescript
  • Python
  • Bash
  • C/C++
  • Ruby, Ruby on Rails

Working on Linux, more specifically:

  • Debian & Ubuntu
  • Alpine Linux
  • Redhat Linux/Centos/AWS Linux

Deploying software using:

  • Cloudformation
  • Docker
  • Ansible
  • Terraform

Deploying into Cloud services such as:

  • AWS, with a focus on Containers, Serverless, data streaming services and Networking
  • Google Cloud

Setting up continuous integration using:

  • Buildkite
  • GitHub Actions
  • Jenkins

I am also an avid contributor to open source, with a keen interested in networking, authentication, distributed systems and databases. I contribute to https://www.apache.org/ projects, specifically Arrow and Iceberg.

Outside of work I do a enjoy cycling, fishing and playing golf.

For a list of what I have worked on recently see https://github.com/wolfeidau

Speaking

Most of my recent talks are listed at https://speakerdeck.com/wolfeidau

Contact

You can find me at: