Mark Mercado
Systems Engineer at DigitalOcean
Grand Blanc, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Mercado is a seasoned Systems Engineer with over 20 years of hands-on experience designing and operating mission-critical multi-tier systems across datacenter and cloud environments. He blends developer-first thinking with deep expertise in automation, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, and virtualization—recently focusing on Ansible/AWX and tooling at DigitalOcean. Comfortable from metal to application, he has built private clouds, deployed Consul-wide service discovery, and managed large HPC and OpenStack environments, often starting projects from scratch. An active open-source contributor, he’s enhanced terminal UX via Fig autocompletions and improved StackStorm Kubernetes docs, reflecting a pragmatic interest in tooling and community. Known for fast learning, strong analytical problem-solving, and a preference for creative freedom, he plans to pursue a PhD in the coming years while continuing to drive complex systems work.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Honors), Mathematics, 3.69 (of 4), BSc (Honors), Mathematics, 3.69 (of 4) at University of Michigan-FlintUniversity of Missouri-Saint LouisSt Charles Community CollegeMott Community CollegeHigh School Diploma, 3.97, High School Diploma, 3.97 at Francis Howell North HS
English, German
Github Skills (18)
command-line-interface10
autocomplete10
typescript10
helm10
typescript-types10
command-line10
typescripts10
documentation10
cli10
storm9
kubernetes9
kubernetes-pods9
shell8
sh8
zsh8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
withfig/autocomplete
May 2022 - Oct 2022
IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal & shell
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 36 commits, 38 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Mark implemented a series of completion specifications for various command-line tools within the `withfig/autocomplete` repository. These completions cover a wide range of utilities, including `nc`, `bc`, `lpass`, `w`, `ansible-config`, `who`, `fold`, `od`, `nl`, `sftp`, `tr`, `tac`, `fmt`, `basenc`, `base64`, `base32`, `file`, `ansible-doc`, `screen`, `ansible-galaxy`, `vault`, `split`, `paste`, `join`, `install`, `pathchk`, `basename`, `dirname`, `tee`, `stat`, `readlink`, `truncate`, `mkfifo`, `shred`, `mknod`, and `ansible-lint`. The contributions focused on expanding the autocomplete functionality of the `fig` tool, providing a more user-friendly and efficient terminal experience. The user's work included defining the command structure, options, and arguments for each tool, enhancing the overall utility of `fig` and the targeted terminal environment.
zshiterm2bashfigide
StackStorm/st2docs
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
StackStorm Documentation.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:3 reviews, 9 commits, 3 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Mark focused on updating and improving the documentation for the StackStorm project. Their work primarily involved refining installation instructions, specifically for Kubernetes HA deployments. They streamlined the Helm installation steps, corrected comments, and updated the displayed output image within the documentation.
stackstorm
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