Mark Harris
Principal Software Development Engineer at Workday
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolMark Harris is a Principal Software Development Engineer with over 20 years of hands-on experience building high-performance backend services, control planes, and secure distributed systems for highly regulated and disconnected environments. He specializes in government-grade cloud enablement (FedRAMP, STIG, DoD IL4/IL5) and air-gapped operations, translating NIST/DoD guidance into auditable supply-chain, CI/CD, and PKI standards while remaining an active coder in Go, C#, Python, Rust, and TypeScript. Known as a force multiplier, he authors compliance-grade internal references, runs deep design reviews, and mentors transitioning veterans through programs like Amazon Technical Academy and Microsoft MSSA. At Workday and Microsoft he has driven measurable platform improvements—replacing legacy workflows with certificate-based MFA CLIs and cutting environment setup time by ~80%—and has rescued production clusters and Terraform state at scale. He combines low-level reverse-engineering and incident-response chops with cloud-native platform engineering, a blend that makes him equally effective unblocking teams on EKS/ArgoCD/Terraform and shaping multi-team technical strategy.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Logistics & Aviation Management, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Logistics & Aviation Management at Robert Morris UniversityAssociate of Science (AS) Aviation Technology, Associate of Science (AS) Aviation Technology at Community College of Allegheny CountyMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Virginia Commonwealth University
Github Skills (81)
golang9
programming-language9
swarm9
cli8
angular8
docker-compose8
visual-studio8
security8
interpreter8
git-client8
visual-studio-code8
docker-image8
microsoft8
xamarin-forms8
go8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
MarkDHarris/channel9-dl
May 2018 - Sep 2018
.NET core powered tool to help download MSDN Channel 9 videos for offline viewing
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 4 months
videoschannel-9-msdnnet-corecsharpvideo
MarkDHarris/FourSmallAlgorithmProjects
Apr 2024 - Jun 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 17 branches in 1 month
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