Mark Farragher
Founder at Skillsoft
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMark Farragher is a serial founder and former CTO with 25+ years of technology leadership who now runs MDFT Pro, a hybrid academy teaching Microsoft Azure, data engineering and AI to developers and tech leaders. Based in Amsterdam, he has built and led engineering teams across Europe and the US and helped organisations introduce machine learning into business processes as a hands-on senior engineer and VP of Engineering. Today he focuses on high-performance training that makes teams AI-native—teaching practical LLM-assisted coding, Microsoft certification pathways, and leadership skills for technical professionals. His background in physics and long track record founding and scaling tech and training ventures give him a rare mix of analytical depth and practical teaching experience. He regularly partners with major training providers (Skillsoft, Udemy, Vijfhart) and nonprofits to upskill diverse talent, with a particular strength in translating enterprise AI and cloud concepts into job-ready skills.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Degree Physics, Masters Degree Physics at Utrecht UniversityVoortgezet Wetenschappelijk Onderwijs (VWO), Voortgezet Wetenschappelijk Onderwijs (VWO) at Baudartius College Zutphen
English, German, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (61)
windows10
desktop10
dotnet9
color-picker9
csharp9
powertoys9
wrapper8
gmail8
file-manager8
fluent-design8
explore8
interactive-programming8
manager8
xamarin-ios8
polyglot8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mdfarragher/DSC
Aug 2019 - Nov 2020
Data Science With C# and ML.NET
Contributions:54 commits, 36 pushes in 1 year 3 months
mdfarragher/Research
Jun 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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