Summary
Mark Castell-sykes is a seasoned full-stack engineer and director with over a decade of experience building web and infrastructure solutions across intelligence, defense, telecoms, retail, policing and laboratory testing. He combines hands-on expertise in modern containerised platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, Concourse, Ansible) with deep application-level skills in Java (Spring, enterprise web stacks) and JavaScript (Node, React, Redux). As founder and director of Kodis Limited since 2013, he bridges technical leadership and delivery, having previously led engineering at IPL and developed commercial software earlier in his career. Comfortable across CI/CD, automated testing and front-to-back product delivery, he is adept at turning complex, regulated requirements into auditable, production-ready systems. Trained with an MEng in Computer Science from the University of Bristol, he brings an engineer’s rigour combined with pragmatic, long-term operational thinking.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Computer Science, MEng, Computer Science at University of Bristol