Mark Goddard
Founding Engineer at Cofide Security
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Goddard is a founding engineer and seasoned technical leader with 12 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, HPC and networking systems from embedded video conferencing MCUs to large OpenStack deployments. Based in Bristol, he combines deep backend and DevOps expertise—demonstrated by long-standing upstream contributions to OpenStack projects like Magnum, Kolla and Nova and fixes in core tools such as Ansible—with practical product delivery at startups and enterprises. At StackHPC he helped commercialize open-source cloud tooling, led multiple engineering teams, created the Kayobe deployment tool and authored a Rust-based service for exascale data reduction. He thrives in roles that blend coding, architecture and mentoring, often stepping into project lead and PTL responsibilities in community projects. Equally comfortable debugging low-level C in switch fabrics or streamlining CI and container image builds, he has a track record of improving reliability and deployment automation across complex distributed systems. Mark brings an uncommon mix of embedded systems roots and cloud-scale orchestration skills, making him adept at connecting hardware-aware design with scalable software operations.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Myton SchoolMEng Electronic and Communications Engineering, MEng Electronic and Communications Engineering at University of Bristol
English, German
Github Skills (36)
kubernetes10
docker10
python10
image10
testing10
bash10
dockers10
containerization10
networking10
cicd10
openstack10
service-design10
kubernetes-pods10
ansible10
network-automation10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/kolla-ansible
Feb 2017 - Jan 2023
Ansible deployment of the Kolla containers. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:956 commits, 2 comments in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Mark's commits primarily involved modifying and improving the Ansible deployment playbooks and configurations for the Kolla-Ansible project. Their contributions included adding and modifying tasks to support new OpenStack features like Ironic and the integration with services like Octavia. The user addressed bugs, improved documentation, and streamlined CI test scripts.
ansible
openstack/kolla
May 2016 - Aug 2022
Kolla provides production-ready containers and deployment tools for operating OpenStack clouds. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:377 commits in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the Kolla project by addressing issues related to image builds, deployment, and CI/CD processes. Their commits focused on correcting configuration, fixing build failures related to dependencies, and resolving issues with containerization. They also updated build scripts, and adapted image builds for changes in upstream projects and dependencies.
openstack
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