Mark Kampe
SCUBA Instructor at Divers West
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Kampe is a retired OS architect turned educator and SCUBA instructor in Los Angeles, with a multi-decade career building high-availability kernels, distributed storage, and performance-critical infrastructure across Sun, Parascale, Huawei, and startups. He blends deep systems engineering — including kernel ports, WAN replication, and carrier-grade HA platforms — with a decade-plus of teaching operating systems and software engineering at UCLA, Pomona, and Harvey Mudd. As VP of Engineering and technical lead at several companies he hired and mentored teams, guided product roadmaps, and helped scale engineering organizations. Now he spends his time teaching computer science and diving, continuing to program for fun and applying practical industry lessons to classroom projects. An early Unix and ARPANET-era contributor by training, he brings rare institutional memory and a knack for translating low-level complexity into clearer course goals and real-world systems.
13 years of coding experience
47 years of employment as a software developer
MS OS and Programming Languages, MS OS and Programming Languages at UCLA Computer Sci DepartmentBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at UCLA, School of Engineering
Github Skills (3)
map-generator10
operating-system9
ceph7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
markkampe/Big-Software
Mar 2016 - Aug 2025
Materials for use in my Software Engineering Course
Contributions:1 PR, 195 pushes in 9 years 6 months
engineering-courseengineering
markkampe/Still
Jun 2016 - Oct 2020
Contributions:20 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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