Mark Church
Group Product Manager at Google
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Church is a Group Product Manager at Google with a decade of experience building cloud networking, security, and AI-driven operations products. He led Kubernetes networking for GKE, co-founded the industry Gateway API, and scaled Private Service Connect to multi-exabit traffic and 11x revenue growth. He now focuses on agents that simplify cloud use and understanding, having previously driven Gemini Cloud Assist to automate troubleshooting with AI. His background spans product leadership at Docker and customer-facing systems engineering at Cisco, giving him both deep technical fluency and proven go-to-market impact. An MS in Computer Science and Machine Learning from UT Austin complements his hands-on contributions to open source docs for the widely used gateway-api project. Colleagues describe him as a metric-driven builder who blends developer empathy, standards leadership, and operational rigor.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Electrical Engineering & Computer Engineering, B.S., Electrical Engineering & Computer Engineering at Florida State UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science and Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science and Machine Learning at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (9)
aws-apigateway10
api-documentation10
amazon-api-gateway10
ca-api-gateway10
api-gateway10
documentation10
kubernetes-pods9
kubernetes9
networking8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api
Nov 2020 - Sep 2021
Repository for the next iteration of composite service (e.g. Ingress) and load balancing APIs.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:48 reviews, 15 commits, 16 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Mark's contributions primarily focus on creating and updating documentation within the `kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api` repository. The commits demonstrate the addition of new guides, including a "simple gateway" guide, examples for HTTPRoute traffic matching, and a guide on HTTP traffic splitting, all of which explain how to use the Gateway API. Additionally, the user made changes to the API overview document and general documentation updates, indicating a focus on improving the clarity and completeness of the API's documentation.
k8s-sig-networkload-balancingingresskubernetesprometheus
mark-church/service-apis
Nov 2020 - Aug 2021
Repository for the next iteration of composite service (e.g. Ingress) and load balancing APIs.
Contributions:68 pushes, 14 branches in 9 months
fiberload-balancingingresskubernetesprometheus
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