Mark Cohen
Software Development Manager, AWS Athena at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ridgewood, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolMark Cohen is a seasoned software development leader with over two decades of experience building scalable cloud, search, and media systems, currently managing the AWS Athena team focused on Trino-based federated query connectors. He has led core search work for OpenSearch, delivered search and entity-recognition systems for Prime Video, and scaled critical billing infrastructure at AWS, bringing a pragmatic blend of product focus and engineering rigor. Mark is an advocate for open source—having shaped OpenSearch roadmap and contributor processes—and actively maintains the aws-athena-query-federation connector ecosystem. He mentors engineering leaders, builds high-performing teams and cultures, and is skilled at introducing standards and integrations that accelerate adoption across e-commerce, document, and video domains. Based in Ridgewood, NJ, he pairs deep technical breadth (content, search, video, cloud) with a track record of shipping production systems that solve real customer problems.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BA Media Studies/Computer Science, BA Media Studies/Computer Science at University at Buffalo
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (61)
amazon-athena10
trino10
search-engine10
sql-query10
opensearch10
delta-lake10
prestodb10
relevance10
data-science10
databases10
big-data10
distributed-systems10
hadoop10
solr10
jdbc10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
macohen/StringCalculatorKata
Jan 2015 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 7 branches in 7 years 11 months
opensearch-project/dashboards-search-relevance
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Tools to help search relevance engineers and business users tune search results for their OpenSearch applications.
Contributions:1 release, 57 reviews, 60 commits in 4 months
opensearchsearchsearch-enginesearch-relevancesearch-relevance-engineers
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