Mark Curtis
Technical Support Engineer at Dremio
Greater Colchester Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Curtis is a seasoned Technical Support Engineer with over two decades in software, telecoms and industrial control systems, currently focused on escalations and support tooling for data platforms. He has deep hands-on expertise with DataStax Enterprise, Apache Cassandra, Solr, Spark, Unix/Linux, and cloud deployments across AWS, GCP and Azure, combined with IP and optical networking experience from earlier telecom roles. Mark has a track record of stabilising complex customer environments, automating operations with Ansible and OpsCenter LCM, and delivering white-glove managed services. His career path—from a British Rail apprenticeship through automotive control systems to strategic support at Oracle and DataStax—gives him a practical systems-thinking approach to reliability and performance. Colchester-based and comfortable working across EMEA, he brings a customer-first mindset and a knack for translating deep technical detail into operational outcomes. Outside work he’s known for lightening tense escalations with dad jokes, a small but effective soft-skill that reflects his people-oriented support style.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
City&Guilds 230, 236, 224, ONC, & HNC Electrial Engineering, City&Guilds 230, 236, 224, ONC, & HNC Electrial Engineering at NewhamCisco CCNA, Networking, Cisco CCNA, Networking at Home StudyOracle OSM Foundations, Oracle OSM Foundations at Oracle University
Stackoverflow
2,128reputation
155kreached
74answers
0questions
cassandra
top-1%
Github Skills (56)
cassandra10
dremio9
jsonl9
datastax-enterprise8
csv8
xml8
datastax8
logdna8
csv-import8
azure-sql-edge7
json7
excel7
logger7
dse7
eclipse6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
markcurtis1970/graph-iostats
Nov 2015 - Apr 2022
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 6 years 6 months
markcurtis1970/collab
Mar 2019 - Mar 2024
Collab stuff
Contributions:2 PRs, 27 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years
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