Mark Duffield
Principal Architect, Semiconductor, Google Cloud
San Diego Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Duffield is a Principal Architect specializing in semiconductor, HPC, and multi-petabyte storage architectures, currently shaping solutions for Google Cloud after a decade leading semiconductor and HPC efforts at AWS. He combines deep, hands-on technical expertise from roles at DDN, IBM, and UC San Diego with a proven ability to resolve complex systems issues and drive cross-organizational technical strategy. Known for tenacity and clear stakeholder communication, he regularly translates low-level engineering tradeoffs into actionable business outcomes. He leads with empathy and active listening, ensuring diverse perspectives influence high-impact decisions across teams and leadership. An early-career biochemistry graduate who pivoted into systems engineering, he brings uncommon domain-crossing curiosity and disciplined problem-solving to cloud-scale infrastructure challenges.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
English, Spanish
Github Skills (28)
xilinx10
converter10
vivado10
table-of-contents9
markdown9
markup9
aws9
commonmark9
markup-language9
haskell9
pandoc9
classification-model8
scale8
command-line8
hpc-cluster8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
veloduff/pingmon
Sep 2020 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 14 pushes, 2 tags in 3 years
awslabs/aws-cfn-control
Oct 2018 - Mar 2022
AWS-CFN-Control is an interface that provides a way to quickly deploy and redeploy CloudFormation stacks from the command line. The cfnctl command provides the core functionality, with several other commands that will find AMI info, get stack status, build CloudFormation mappings, and other features.
Contributions:2 releases, 27 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years 6 months
awscommand-lineredeploy
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