Mark Harrison
Director Of Engineering at Disney Streaming
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Harrison is a Director of Engineering with 11 years of leadership experience building large-scale, highly available platforms for consumer streaming and distributed systems. At Disney Streaming he conceived and delivered the experimentation platform that enabled high-throughput A/B testing across millions of daily subscribers and helped shape multi-tenant architecture serving hundreds of millions of users. He has deep hands-on roots in JVM/Scala, cloud and distributed systems from earlier roles leading 50+ engineer teams and driving major rewrites for high-profile clients. Mark is skilled at scaling organisations as well as systems—redefining hiring and onboarding to improve quality and diversity while expanding technical domains to meet growth targets. Based in Stevenage, he blends rigorous engineering discipline with public-facing technical engagement, having driven his org’s first public blog and open source outreach.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Software Engineering, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Software Engineering, First Class Honours at The Manchester Metropolitan University
Github Skills (39)
amazon-kinesis10
kafka-connector10
logical-replication10
java10
kinesis-stream10
amazon10
jvm9
postgresql9
reactive9
cdc9
scala9
akka9
akka-streams9
scalatest9
restful9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
WW-Digital/reactive-kinesis
Apr 2017 - Jul 2018
A Scala & Akka based implementation for working with Amazon Kinesis Streams
Contributions:23 releases, 109 commits, 40 PRs in 1 year 2 months
kinesiskinesis-streamsamazonamazon-kinesisamazon-kinesis-streams
markglh/composing-microservices-with-sbt-docker
Aug 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
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