Mark Eliasen is a pragmatic technology leader with 12 years of hands-on software and security experience, currently serving as Head of Technology at Peregrine RM where he builds internal tools, products, and leads InfoSec and ISO 27001 efforts. He has scaled and matured engineering functions as Head of Engineering at Shift, overseeing 20+ engineers, migrating infrastructure to Terraform, and instituting quality gates and developer happiness initiatives. A full-stack practitioner comfortable from Go and PHP backends to Flutter mobile and Vue frontends, he bridges product, infrastructure, and security in regulated environments. His freelance background spans startups to enterprise clients, including work for insurance and security sectors, demonstrating adaptability across stacks like MERN, LAMP, and serverless platforms. Direct, no-nonsense, and selectively networked, he prefers substance over small talk—expect expertise rather than outreach. An ex-firefighter turned coder, he brings disciplined crisis-response thinking to system reliability and incident preparedness.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Life, Life, Life, Life at Self-Taught, School of Life
Contributions:8 releases, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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