Summary
Mark Isham is a seasoned, hands-on engineering executive and startup founder with 25+ years building enterprise-scale analytics, global observability platforms, and Agentic AI pipelines. Currently VP of Engineering at MedScout, he drives AI-powered sales intelligence for MedTech while remaining actively involved in open-source AI projects and thought leadership. He has scaled multiple startups to 100+ engineers and over $100M ARR, and earlier helped grow ChannelAdvisor from a five-person startup to a public company handling billions in monthly transactions. At FullStory he led 125 engineers, cut unit COGS by 30%, maintained 99.99+% availability at massive ingestion scale, and shepherded rapid AI-driven cultural change soon after ChatGPT emerged. A pragmatic operator who still codes, Mark blends executive rigor across product, cloud, security, and compliance with founder-level curiosity—ask his career chat agent for a conversational resume. Based in Atlanta, he brings uncommon depth in turning AI/observability research into reliable, production-grade systems.
10 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute