Mark Bergsma
VP Of Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering & Developer Experience at Wikimedia Foundation
Limburg, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMark Bergsma is a seasoned engineering leader with 20 years of experience building and operating large-scale, high-performance web infrastructure, currently serving as VP of Engineering for Site Reliability Engineering & Developer Experience at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has progressed through technical and leadership roles at Wikimedia since 2005, blending deep systems architecture, performance engineering, and network management expertise with hands-on software development. Mark is known for turning complex, public-facing platforms into reliable, secure services at scale and for evolving teams and processes to support global, volunteer-driven products. Based in Limburg, Netherlands, he couples an MSc in Computer Science from Eindhoven University of Technology with a pragmatic focus on observability, resilience, and developer productivity—often tackling subtle operational challenges that lie between networking and application performance.
20 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology
Github Skills (48)
mediawiki10
python10
puppet10
foundation10
mqtt10
wikimedia10
philips-hue10
iot10
automation10
privacy10
jekyll10
mirror10
home-assistant10
raspberry-pi10
gitweb10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mayson/wikimedia-pybal
Jan 2006 - Jan 2016
Contributions:187 commits in 10 years 1 month
wikimedia/operations-debs-pybal
May 2012 - Dec 2018
Contributions:141 commits in 6 years 7 months
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