Mark Galpin
Software Architect at Fulcrum Defense
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Galpin is a software architect with over 18 years of experience who blends deep hands-on coding across C/C++/Java/Scala/Python/Go/Ruby with strategic leadership in software supply chain resilience and public sector programs. He has spent a decade engaging with DoD processes and spent recent years at Tidelift and JFrog leading solutions engineering, product efforts, and teams focused on making open source safer and more reliable for enterprises. Comfortable across package ecosystems from Docker to Maven and Conan, he bridges technical execution, vendor oversight, and customer-facing consulting. An active contributor to projects like JFrog’s Artifactory plugins and Conan docs, he pairs practical plugin development and documentation work with speaking on DevOps and OSS supply chain issues. Based in Tucson, he’s known for quickly grasping complex customer needs and turning them into auditable, secure delivery plans.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Physics, BA, Physics at Boston University
French
Github Skills (12)
doc10
restructuredtext10
groovy10
conan10
documentation10
artifactory10
apidoc9
api9
testing8
dockers7
docker7
python5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jfrog/artifactory-user-plugins
Apr 2015 - Mar 2022
Sample Artifactory User Plugins
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 41 commits, 10 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to user plugins for the Artifactory platform. Their work includes creating a plugin to extract properties from layouts, enhancing it to include custom tokens, and fixing errors related to property editing authorization. They also made changes to a docker retag plugin, addressing issues such as logging errors and fixing the success message format. Additionally, the user added and improved a user plugin to display the current date, including writing tests for it.
artifactory
conan-io/docs
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
conan.io reStructuredText documentation
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 1 branch in 6 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on updating and maintaining the documentation for the Conan package manager. Their contributions involved clarifying remote prioritization, updating the changelog with user agent information, and adding notices regarding Python 2 deprecation. They also reorganized documentation content by moving deprecation notices to the installation section.
restructuredtextconanconan-documentation
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