Mark Koch
Principal Software Engineer, Ground Segment at EOI Space
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Koch is a Principal Software Engineer with over 25 years of hands-on experience designing scalable ground and cloud systems and leading high-performing engineering teams. Based in the Denver area, he has driven ground-segment and satellite software initiatives from early ground-station builds to launch-ready EO ground systems, and has shepherded platform migrations to modern, serverless architectures. He combines deep systems and architectural expertise with practical operational rigor—his teams have delivered zero high-severity incidents during critical Launch and Early Operations phases. Mark is equally comfortable selecting infrastructure and tooling as he is mentoring engineers and codifying best practices that sustain velocity and quality. His career spans startups and enterprise programs across space, energy, and sports analytics, reflecting an ability to translate domain-specific constraints into resilient software. An early practitioner of map-enabled satellite data systems, he brings rare domain knowledge at the intersection of remote sensing and cloud-native engineering.
14 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
M.S.A.E Remote Sensing, M.S.A.E Remote Sensing at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (99)
testing10
lambda10
continuous-integration10
aws10
developer-tools9
slack-bot9
python9
serverless9
localstack9
slack-integration9
aws-lambda9
serverless-framework9
docker-compose8
telegram8
terraform8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
finagle/finagle-protobuf
Jun 2012 - Jul 2013
Protobuf support for Finagle
Contributions:3 commits in 1 year 1 month
finagleprotocol-buffersgrpcprotobuf
BetterStackHQ/terraform-provider-better-uptime
Aug 2023 - Oct 2023
Contributions:6 comments, 3 issues in 1 month
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