Mark Boots
Chief Information Officer
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Boots is a Chief Information Officer and startup founder with 16 years of experience scaling mission-driven technology organizations across Africa, Southeast Asia and Canada. As co-founder and CTO of Viamo he grew the team from 1 to 300, architected a cloud+edge multi-channel communications platform serving 20+ million annual users, and integrated with 30+ mobile operators to enable resilient services over unreliable networks. He combines hands-on engineering and research rigor (PhD in Physics and Engineering Physics) with executive skills in product, finance and culture, having acted as interim CFO and board member to align mission and sustainability. Mark has deep experience building cross-functional product crews, privacy-conscious platforms, and HPC-grade simulation software from his academic work. Now serving as CIO at STARS after recent CIO and fractional leadership roles, he focuses on scaling secure, high-availability systems that solve complex social problems. Notably, his background in beamline optics and open-source simulation tools reveals a technical depth that informs practical architectural decisions at scale.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics and Engineering Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics and Engineering Physics at University of Saskatchewan
English, French
Github Skills (26)
data-management9
specification9
exchange9
science9
python8
machine-learning8
spark8
data-science7
drawing7
big-data7
api7
freeswitch6
kamailio6
sdp5
sctp5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
markboots/peg
Apr 2012 - Aug 2012
Contributions:107 commits in 4 months
FLOIP/flow-spec
Jan 2017 - Jan 2023
Contributions:9 reviews, 199 commits, 44 PRs in 6 years 1 month
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