Mark Weitzel
North Carolina, United States
Summary
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RockstarMark Weitzel is a Principal Architect and Product Manager in Microsoft's Developer Division who focuses on making cloud capabilities easy and accessible for developers to build transformative applications. He brings deep platform and ecosystem expertise from leadership roles at New Relic, Jive, and IBM, where he drove developer enablement, APIs, integrations, and open-standards strategies. Notably, he conceived the Code for America/New Relic partnership and served as President of the OpenSocial Foundation, reflecting a long-standing commitment to open source and public-good collaborations. Based in Durham, NC, he blends technical architecture, product strategy, and business acumen—holding dual BBA degrees in Finance and Computer Information Systems—to translate complex platform requirements into practical developer experiences.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (91)
swagger10
microsoft-azure10
specification10
rest-api10
openapi10
guidelines10
api10
rest10
azure10
microsoft10
webapi10
gpt49
relic9
openapi39
sdk9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
APIPatterns/APIPracticePatterns
Aug 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:39 commits, 6 PRs, 21 pushes in 7 months
APIPatterns/PatternsLibrary
Oct 2022 - Aug 2024
Contributions:6 PRs, 2 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 9 months
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