Mark Fussell
Founder CEO at Diagrid Inc
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Fussell is a founder and CEO with over three decades of engineering and product leadership experience, currently building Diagrid after a long tenure at Microsoft where he created and shepherded platforms like Azure Service Fabric and co-created the fast-growing CNCF project Dapr. He combines deep systems and developer empathy—having designed core .NET XML libraries and cloud-scale orchestration used by Azure SQL, CosmosDB and Teams—with a proven ability to turn incubation projects into widely adopted products. Mark is fluent at bridging engineering, product and partner ecosystems, running large teams, and presenting technical visions to senior leadership and public audiences. He still contributes to open-source documentation for Dapr, reflecting hands-on involvement in developer experience as well as strategy. Known for starting high-impact platform initiatives and translating them into commercial and community success, he favors long-term thinking balanced with practical execution.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering, BEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of EdinburghHigher Education Maths Physics Chemistry Computer Science, Higher Education Maths Physics Chemistry Computer Science at Anglia Ruskin University
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Github Skills (12)
markdown10
dapr10
markdown-it10
documentation10
technical-writing10
hugo7
http6
azure-service-fabric6
azure6
windows-containers6
security6
ssl-certificate6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
dapr/docs
Sep 2019 - Dec 2022
Dapr user documentation, used to build docs.dapr.io
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:2559 reviews, 251 commits, 641 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the repository by updating documentation files. The commits show modifications to files related to the Dapr documentation, including updating component tables, API overviews, and building block guides. The changes indicate an effort to keep the documentation current with the latest Dapr versions and features.
dapruser-documentation
dapr/community
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Governance and community material for Dapr and its open source sub-projects
Contributions:72 reviews, 85 commits, 55 PRs in 2 years 4 months
daprgovernance
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