Mark Godfrey is a Principal Software Engineer based in Bristol with 11 years of experience building cloud-native and distributed systems. He currently focuses on serverless technologies within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, contributing to the open-source Fn Project. His background spans backend platform development at Nokia and Microsoft, where he worked on RESTful services, introduced Kafka for scalable data pipelines, and led a move to AWS as part of a devops transformation. Mark holds a PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering and earlier worked on photonic chip-based quantum cryptography, a detail that informs his rigorous, research-driven approach to engineering. He combines deep systems-level expertise with practical operational ownership, thriving at the intersection of open-source collaboration and production reliability.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MSci Physics, MSci Physics at King's College London
PhD Electronic and Electrical Engineering, PhD Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University of Bristol
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