Summary
Mark Jaroski is a Cyber Security Architect in Geneva with 24 years of experience designing, hardening, and evolving identity and access systems for global organizations. He has spent two decades at the World Health Organization, progressing from web systems administration to leading IAM architecture and now overseeing broader cyber security strategy and implementations. Mark specializes in federated authentication and federation negotiations, translating complex policy and partner requirements into resilient, auditable integrations. His background spans hands-on web and CMS development, early work on SAML-related reference implementations, and applied database and hosting operations—giving him a rare full-stack perspective on security. Known for incremental, pragmatic improvements, he balances operational availability with security controls in high-stakes public health environments. Outside formal titles, his interdisciplinary arts and physics foundation hints at a creative, systems-oriented approach to solving technical and organizational challenges.
24 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Physics, Fine arts, BFA, Physics, Fine arts at Southern Illinois University
Interdisciplinary Arts, Interdisciplinary Arts at Columbia College Chicago
English, French, Italian, German