Summary
Mark Gascoyne is a founder and software engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native systems, Kubernetes operators, and GitOps-driven delivery pipelines. He has led engineering teams and strategic initiatives at startups and scale-ups, translating complex infrastructure challenges into repeatable, observable workflows. Mark’s work spans Go microservices, CI/CD automation, and infrastructure-as-code, with a practical focus on deployment confidence and developer visibility. He introduced company-wide development architecture practices and GitOps at multiple organisations, improving reliability and release cadence. Based in Doncaster, UK, he pairs entrepreneurial drive from running Code Laboratory Ltd with deep systems expertise gained across roles from senior engineer to network services lead. Notably, he combines operator development and pragmatic tooling to bridge the gap between SRE practices and everyday developer experience.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc(Hons), Software Engineering, BSc(Hons), Software Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University