Mark Gascoyne
Co-founder at Code Laboratory ltd
Doncaster, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMark 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
Github Skills (88)
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postgresql10
jsonb10
testing10
fyne10
home-assistant10
monitoring10
letsencrypt10
ai10
golang10
hstore10
database10
test-automation10
kubernetes10
quality-assurance10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
vitrifi/go-ds-crdt
Nov 2024 - Jul 2025
A distributed go-datastore implementation using Merkle-CRDTs.
Contributions:6 reviews, 13 PRs, 35 pushes in 8 months
go
mgazza/mgazza.github.io
Jun 2020 - Feb 2026
github pages
Contributions:29 PRs, 140 pushes, 41 branches in 5 years 8 months
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