Summary
Mark Harris is a Software Due Diligence Architect and seasoned technology leader with 13 years of senior engineering and product leadership experience spanning startups to Fortune 100s. He builds high-performing teams, scales engineering organizations, and drives pragmatic architecture decisions—recently evaluating target companies’ tech readiness for M&A at West Monroe after leading enterprise initiatives at GEICO and serving as CTO at an AI governance startup. Mark blends deep hands-on technical expertise (event-sourced microservices, CI/CD, observability replatforming, and large UI test suites) with product and operational rigor, having improved release cadence and transaction throughput at scale. He has a track record in healthcare and insurance tech, helped shape industry standards for electronic prior authorization, and pairs that domain fluency with an inclusive, people-first leadership style. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he holds an MS in Computer Science and an MBA, and is notable for moving teams from semi-annual to weekly releases while tripling engineering capacity.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of Washington
Master's, Business Administration, Master's, Business Administration at Xavier University
BS, Computer & Information Science, BS, Computer & Information Science at The Ohio State University
Spanish