MarkĀ Holton
Founder at Nora Foundry
Alpharetta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolMark Holton is a seasoned software architect and founder with 17 years building production-scale, event-driven systems and data platforms across SaaS, desktop, and analytics products. He led large Kafka-based pipelines and real-time stream processing at Salesforce, architecting solutions that handle billions of events monthly and implementing resilient consumer patterns like circuit breakers, bulkheads, and retry queues. Equally comfortable in Java, Go, Ruby, and cloud-native tooling, he has a track record of shipping high-throughput proxies and infrastructure components (e.g., ElasticProxy/SiteProxy) that supported hundreds of thousands of requests per minute. Now leading Nora Foundry, he focuses on privacy, ownership, and durable architecture while bringing hands-on engineering, hiring, and mentoring experience from both startup and enterprise environments. An engineering physicist by training with specialized Golang and Ruby credentials, he blends rigorous systems thinking with pragmatic product-focused implementation.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in Ruby Development Ruby Ruby on Rails, Certificate in Ruby Development Ruby Ruby on Rails at University of Washington - ExtensionComputer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at DePaul UniversityEngineering Physics Engineering Physics Aeronautics, Engineering Physics Engineering Physics Aeronautics at Miami UniversityHardcore Go Golang, Hardcore Go Golang at Ardan Labs
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Github Skills (18)
couchbase9
sdk8
keystore8
truststore7
golang5
java5
environment-variables5
api4
rest4
rest-api3
in-memory3
go2
hocon1
configuration-management1
python1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
holtonma/dashboard
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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