Mark Abrams
Principal Emerging Technologies Specialist at SUSE
City of Albany, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMark Abrams is a Principal Emerging Technologies Specialist with 11 years focused on cloud-native and edge computing, currently helping enterprises translate complex technical architectures into measurable business outcomes at SUSE. He combines a rare blend of creative practice—trained as a sculptor and founder of a 3D design studio—with deep field engineering and solutions-architect experience across Kubernetes, GitOps, IoT fleets, and multi-cluster orchestration. Known for bridging C-level strategy and hands-on implementation, he shortens sales cycles by turning transactional deals into long-term consultative partnerships and feeding real-world insights back into product teams. A seasoned speaker and educator in the cloud-native community, he has presented on topics from node feature discovery to automated Kubernetes at major industry events. Outside core engineering, he embeds hardware and custom artifacts into prototypes and productions, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach to solving practical edge problems.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at University at AlbanyBA Studio Art (Sculpture), BA Studio Art (Sculpture) at State University of New York at Plattsburgh
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Github Skills (40)
kubernetes10
docker10
rancher10
cattle10
k8s10
container-management9
gcode9
go9
3d-printer9
3d-models9
orchestration9
openscad8
3d-graphics7
linux7
3d7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mak3r/k3s-edge-demo-land
Feb 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
mak3r/turnkey
May 2020 - Aug 2020
turnkey operations from containers - prebuilt images with k3s running hosting the setup container
Contributions:2 releases, 77 commits, 8 PRs in 3 months
k3s
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