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.

From the very beginning with Versent I was working in AWS, initially with enterprise customers moving into cloud, then providing direction and support to teams across the business working with customers in AWS.

I have a passion for creating and supporting the teams of software developers, my primary goal is keep everything on track while ensuring no one is left behind. I have successfully delivered projects, and products in some of the largest enterprises in Australia, while working with partners like 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, implementing vulnerability management, monitoring and alerting, and supporting the teams.

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

    I was one of the founding team members of the product, I was responsible for creating new teams, supporting new developers, and mentoring existing developers. I was also responsible for the product architecture, and development of key parts of the product related to authentication, user interface and also supported the teams while implementing PCI, and SOC2 compliance.

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

    I supported the creation, onboarding of consulting teams establishing the right skills and processes to work with customers. I also supported the teams with the right tools, architecture and processes to migrate customers into the cloud.

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

    I worked on a variety of projects from proof of concepts to production cloud migrations for large enterprises. I worked with a variety of customers including large enterprises, government, and startups. I mostly supported development teams as their infrastructure moved to the cloud, rebuilding CI/CD, migrating to ec2 and 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.

More recently I have been working with:

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
  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • Ansible

Using a variety of Cloud services such as:

  • AWS
  • Google Cloud

Setting up continuous integration using:

  • GitHub Actions
  • Buildkite
  • 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: