Summary
Mark Berridge is a Principal Technical Architect based in Sheffield with 13 years of experience designing secure, high-throughput cloud and streaming systems for large public and commercial organisations. He has progressed through senior architecture roles at learndirect and Sky Betting & Gaming to lead technical architecture at the UK Ministry of Justice, blending hands-on engineering with leadership and line management of architects and engineers. His work spans AWS, Kafka, real-time data platforms, security and compliance for sensitive customer data, and performance-focused site reliability improvements. Notably, he architected sub-second streaming and BI platforms that handled hundreds of concurrent events and hundreds of transactions per second while meeting strict security and regulatory constraints. Trained as a physicist at the University of Sheffield, he brings a rigorous, analytical approach to solving complex systems problems and translating them into auditable, production-ready solutions.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MPhys Physics, MPhys Physics at The University of Sheffield
English