Mark Mydland
Bremerton, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Mydland is a seasoned engineering leader with over 10 years of executive and hands-on experience building high-scale cloud services, most recently serving as VP of SW Development Engineering at Dexcom after senior leadership roles at Microsoft and as CTO of Strella Biotech. He has a strong record of driving revenue and cost improvements—leading Azure IoT and Lab Services teams that delivered up to $1B in revenue and tens of millions in annual savings—while accelerating delivery cycles and reducing operational risk. A former West Point-trained infantry officer, he combines military leadership and discipline with deep technical chops in cloud, DevOps, and automation, evidenced by contributions to Azure DevTestLab automation scripts and Chocolatey-based environment setup. He excels at scaling teams and systems through measurable engineering practices (DORA-style metrics, CI/CD) and pragmatic architecture choices. Known for recruiting and retaining critical talent through acquisitions and rapid rollouts, he thrives at the intersection of product, operations, and engineering execution. Based in Bremerton, WA, he brings a rare mix of strategic impact, operational rigor, and practical automation experience.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, B.S., Mechanical Engineering at United States Military Academy at West Point
Github Skills (10)
chocolatey10
powershell10
automation10
automations10
devops10
package-management10
scripting10
cicd10
microsoft-azure9
azure9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-devtestlab
Sep 2015 - May 2018
Azure DevTestLab artifacts, scripts and samples
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:61 commits, 86 PRs, 113 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributes to the automation and configuration of environments through PowerShell scripts and related artifacts. They work extensively with Chocolatey for package management, creating and modifying scripts to install various tools and dependencies, including those for Azure, VSTS, and other development environments. The user's commits include improvements to build and release processes, setting up user accounts with specific permissions, and streamlining the integration of different software components.
azure
Azure-Samples/IoTEdgeAndMlSample
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
A sample showing how to take advantage of the intelligent edge using Azure ML, IoT and Edge
Contributions:36 commits, 16 PRs, 15 pushes in 11 months
azureiotmachine-learning
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