Mark Nilsson
Director - ASG Presales Engineering -Infrastructure at SHI International Corp.
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Nilsson is a seasoned infrastructure leader with over 15 years transforming corporate IT and data center environments, now directing ASG Presales Engineering at SHI International. He has hands-on experience designing high-availability virtualized architectures, rebuilding enterprise data centers (notably at Epic Games to 99.99% uptime) and leading teams that consistently earn exceptional user satisfaction. Equally comfortable in technical presales and deep engineering, he blends systems-level expertise—storage, virtualization, backup/DR, SDDC—and customer-facing leadership to translate business needs into resilient solutions. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed front-end and back-end fixes to projects like the Diaspora social network and helped enhance a popular cron parser/scheduler used across Node/Deno/Bun environments, showing a practical developer mindset alongside executive experience. Based in Raleigh, NC, he is known for a hands-on management style that cultivates loyalty and operational excellence.
15 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
AAS, Electronic Engineering Technology, AAS, Electronic Engineering Technology at Rowan-Cabarrus Community CollegeBachelor of Science (BS), Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at North Carolina Wesleyan College
Github Skills (21)
ruby-rails10
cron10
javascript10
css10
typescript10
rails10
ui-design10
scheduling10
uid10
front-end-development10
social-networking10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
social-graph10
deno9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Hexagon/croner
Dec 2015 - Jan 2023
Trigger functions or evaluate cron expressions in JavaScript or TypeScript. No dependencies. Most features. Node. Deno. Bun. Browser.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:160 releases, 11 reviews, 383 commits in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the core functionality of the project by adding new files, implementing features, and making minor fixes to the code. The user also integrated a new scheduler functionality, including documentation, and addressed build issues related to specific compatibility with older versions. Their work focused on maintaining the cron parser and scheduler, ensuring it runs efficiently in various environments.
dependenciesschedulerjobcronparser
diaspora/diaspora
Oct 2010 - Dec 2010
A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:51 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on front-end development within the Diaspora social network project, implementing and modifying UI components. They worked on adding and adjusting elements like fancybox modals and YouTube video sizes. The user also contributed to the CSS styling, making changes to the application's appearance. Additionally, they made minor changes to the back-end in application_helper.rb and initializers.
social-networkprivacyrailsp2pprivacy-aware
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