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
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Github Skills (94)
amazon-athena10
opensearch10
relevance10
low-level10
databases10
elasticsearch10
trino10
sql-query10
sdk10
sql10
h210
presto10
database10
kudu10
meilisearch10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
macohen/StringCalculatorKata
Jan 2015 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 7 branches in 7 years 11 months
macohen/opensearch-learning-to-rank-base
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 5 PRs in 1 year 9 months
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