Mark Garner
Principal Sales Engineer at Microsoft
Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Garner is a Principal Sales Engineer and cloud architect with over 20 years of hands-on experience and a decade focused on cloud solutions, helping customers design application, infrastructure, and data platforms on Azure. He blends pre-sales technical leadership with deep engineering chops—leading architecture workshops, multi-week proofs of concept, and driving measurable cloud consumption growth. His expertise spans big data, lambda architectures, streaming, IaaS/PaaS mixes, and end-to-end delivery including CI/CD pipelines and full-stack development. At Microsoft he’s been both a technical specialist and a customer-facing architect, co-leading internal enablement efforts and even co-hosting a worldwide Azure podcast. Based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, he pairs pragmatic solutioning with an uncommon background in music, which informs his collaborative leadership and attention to elegant system design.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Music at Texas Tech University
English
Github Skills (86)
microsoft-azure10
azure10
deploying10
graph10
microsoft10
command-line-interface9
terraform9
aws9
issue-tracking9
binding9
rest8
sidecar8
hashicorp8
serverless8
terraform-module8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
markgar/multistage-pipeline
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:211 pushes in 19 days
markgar/ent-infra
Mar 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:199 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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