Mark Cushman
Director, Data Engineering
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolMark Cushman is a seasoned data engineering leader with over 25 years of IT experience and a decade in senior data roles, currently serving as Director of Data Engineering at Cargill. He has a strong track record of modernizing legacy platforms—most notably retiring a 25-year Teradata estate and standing up an Azure Data Lake and cloud-native analytics stack at NCR within months. Skilled across cloud data platforms (Azure Synapse, ADF, ADLS), DevOps, and security-compliant operations, he blends hands-on technical fluency in SQL, Python and Java with enterprise portfolio, vendor and crisis management. He has repeatedly translated data into measurable business value—driving multimillion-dollar savings, improving availability to 99.96%, and enabling large-scale device telemetry analytics. Known for transforming teams from waterfall to high-performing Agile organizations, he excels at aligning technical strategy with executive priorities across global, diverse teams.
9 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Cedarville University
Stackoverflow
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
markcushman/motomap
Jun 2020 - Sep 2021
mkgmap configuration to create adventure motorcycle maps for Garmin devices
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year 2 months
markcushman/csu_mis407
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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