Mark Carrier is a Senior System Engineer with nine years of experience building Java/J2EE web applications, cloud-integrated services, and high-throughput data pipelines. He combines hands-on expertise in Spring/Struts, SOA, and web services with practical security work—contributing to GeoWave by hardening password handling and adding SSL configurability for GeoServer. Mark has driven dramatic performance gains in analytics pipelines (e.g., boosting ingest from hundreds to over a million records daily) and routinely bridges low-level system design with high-level architecture and customer-facing technical leadership. Comfortable across databases (Postgres, Oracle, MongoDB), servers (Tomcat, JBoss), and big-data tooling (Cloudera/Hadoop exposure), he mentors teams and shapes repeatable, schema-agnostic ETL patterns. Based in the DC–Baltimore area, he’s a perpetual learner who pairs pragmatic problem-solving with clear communication to translate complex requirements into production-ready solutions.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Science at Penn State University
A.S., Electrical Engineering Technology, A.S., Electrical Engineering Technology at Wentworth Institute of Technology
GeoWave provides geospatial and temporal indexing on top of Accumulo, HBase, BigTable, Cassandra, Kudu, Redis, RocksDB, and DynamoDB.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Contributions:17 commits, 19 PRs, 53 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on enhancing the security and functionality of the GeoWave project. Their contributions included implementing password encryption and decryption mechanisms, supporting various password sources, and adding the ability to configure SSL settings for GeoServer. Additionally, the user migrated logging from log4j to slf4j and made updates to documentation. They also added version information retrieval for remote data stores.
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Mark Carrier - Senior System Engineer at OneGlobe LLC