Summary
Mark Drury is a seasoned quality engineering leader with over two decades guiding QA and DevOps teams across startups and scale-ups in the Bay Area, currently directing Quality Engineering at ShotSpotter. He combines deep Unix/Linux systems expertise, CI/CD and AWS experience with hands-on test automation and release management, having built greenfield QA practices for streaming, SaaS and IoT-focused companies. Known as an approachable manager and versatile generalist, he regularly bridges engineering, operations and product to ship reliable cloud services. An early adopter of container and cloud tooling, he’s driven quality initiatives at companies from Net2TV and Pluto TV to Noon Home and ContainerX, bringing pragmatic tooling and automation to complex distributed systems. Based in Menlo Park with a background in information systems and management, he pairs strong communication skills with a long track record of mentoring teams and scaling test infrastructure.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems, Information Systems at University of San Francisco
Management, Management at Menlo College
Computer Science Economics, Computer Science Economics at California State University, Chico