Mark Beacom
Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolMark Beacom is a senior cloud solution architect and builder with 11 years of experience leading enterprise cloud transformations, platform engineering, and DevOps at organizations including AWS, Wowza, and Microsoft. He combines hands-on backend and infrastructure expertise—evidenced by open-source contributions to projects like Zappa, Locust, and MoviePy—with strategic advisory work through his SDVOSB consultancy Cirrustack. As a founder he launched an AgTech platform (WeMush) that operationalizes commercial mushroom cultivation, blending cloud-native automation with applied mycology. He has a practical track record of driving Kubernetes and serverless best practices, security automation, and cost-optimized architectures for global streaming and enterprise customers. An Executive MBA candidate and former Army information assurance officer, he pairs technical depth with operational rigor and a founder’s appetite for problem-solving across cloud, data, and unconventional domains.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA, Business Administration, Management and Operations, Executive MBA, Business Administration, Management and Operations at Quantic School of Business and TechnologyBachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology Software Development, Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology Software Development at Western Governors UniversityHeroes to Hives, Beekeeping, Heroes to Hives, Beekeeping at Michigan State University
Arabic, Spanish, German, English
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Github Skills (42)
api-rest10
git10
rds10
python10
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restful-api10
django10
r10
testing10
loadtest10
data-modeling10
aws-lambda10
rdo10
performance-testing10
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/aws-config-rdk
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
The AWS Config Rules Development Kit helps developers set up, author and test custom Config rules. It contains scripts to enable AWS Config, create a Config rule and test it with sample ConfigurationItems.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 17 reviews, 37 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the AWS Config Rules Development Kit by adding support for Python 3.7 and subsequently removing support for Python 3.6. They refactored the codebase, removing unused code and imports. The user also addressed issues related to Python layer support, and added features to support Python 3.9 lambda layer. The user performed updates to documentation and project metadata.
development-kitruleaws-configset-upamazon-web-services
locustio/locust
Nov 2016 - Mar 2025
Write scalable load tests in plain Python 🚗💨
Role in this project:Backend Engineer & QA Engineer
Backend Engineer & QA EngineerContributions:14 releases, 38 PRs, 28 pushes in 8 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Locust project's core functionality and test suite. Their contributions include modifying dependencies, standardizing code style, and fixing typos in the web UI. They also updated the project's documentation and implemented improvements to the testing infrastructure, including adding tests and addressing bugs in the test suite. The user also incremented the version of the project.
scalablestress-testingbenchmarkingpythonload-testing
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