Summary
Mark Emeis is a Principal Software Engineer with over 30 years of experience building and leading engineering teams across startups and large enterprises, currently contributing at Cisco from Monument, Colorado. He blends hands-on architecture and product instincts—evidenced by founding Yipee.io, a no-YAML container orchestration SaaS—with deep operational experience modernizing build systems and Agile practices at CA Technologies. Mark has a track record of scaling developer productivity, reducing build times by orders of magnitude, and mentoring founders and engineering teams in Lean Startup and Agile methodologies. His background spans UI leadership, datacenter automation, and cloud-native tooling, with recent focus on GitOps and Kubernetes at Weaveworks. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who pairs technical depth with an emphasis on team dynamics and measurable product metrics.
10 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
MIS Information Systems, MIS Information Systems at University of Colorado Colorado Springs