Mark Laney
Senior Solutions Architect at Elastic
Palmer Lake, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Laney is a Curriculum Principal Architect with nine years of experience translating advanced AI, data science, and big data engineering into practical learning programs at Elastic. He designs and rapidly delivers instructor-led and on-demand courses—most notably a 4-day Search AI course and widely attended NLP and Quantum Computing workshops—bridging cutting-edge research and hands-on labs using Python, Elasticsearch, LangChain, PyTorch and Qiskit. Previously at Hortonworks he was Instructor of the Year and a President’s Club honoree, reflecting deep expertise in Hadoop, Spark, and distributed systems that informs his curriculum and consulting work. His background spans high-impact industry delivery—from architecting a patented ad platform at Comcast that still generates substantial revenue to early space-systems simulation work—so he blends enterprise-scale system thinking with pedagogy. Based in Colorado, he’s an active AI educator and practitioner who builds reproducible labs and demos (100+ slides and real quantum runs) to make emerging tech immediately usable. An uncommon strength is his ability to move from low-level systems and algorithmic work to customer-facing training that accelerates adoption of complex AI and search technologies.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Engineering Physics, BS Engineering Physics at University of California, BerkeleyCourse, Course at andrew NGMS & ME Aerospace Engineering and Interdisciplinary Telecommunications, MS & ME Aerospace Engineering and Interdisciplinary Telecommunications at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (25)
search-engine10
observability10
kibana10
java10
restful10
rest10
elasticsearch10
elastic10
visualizations10
time-series-forecasting9
dataframes7
eland7
elasticstack6
lightgbm6
python6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mrklaney/Recipes
Jul 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
mrklaney/Elasticsearch_RAG_Notebook
Apr 2025 - Jun 2025
Contributions:25 pushes in 1 month
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