Mark Olson
Senior System Engineer at VSP Vision
Folsom, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Olson is a senior system engineer with 12+ years focused on CI/CD and large-scale infrastructure, currently driving operational excellence at VSP Vision after a long tenure modernizing cloud and HPC environments at Intel. He specializes in automation with Terraform, Ansible/AWX, and k3s, has led migrations to GitHub and Atlassian Cloud, and consistently reduces technical debt to improve stability and delivery velocity. His work spans multi-cloud deployments (GCP, AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud) and performance benchmarking for storage systems like DAOS, reflecting both hands-on integration and cross-vendor collaboration. Known for building repeatable, secure operational processes (secret and incident management) and training teams, he balances technical leadership with pragmatic execution. Based in Folsom, CA, he combines a computer science background and business training to align engineering improvements with organizational priorities.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at California State University, StanislausBusiness Administration, Business Administration at Colorado Mesa University
Github Skills (20)
deploying9
gcloud8
aws8
storage8
gcp8
plane7
appengine6
terraform6
google-cloud-platform6
google-cloud5
object-store5
storage-engine5
hpc4
debian3
dockerfile3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
markaolson/google-cloud-daos
Jan 2022 - Aug 2022
Terraform Script to Deploy DAOS on GCP
Contributions:156 pushes, 54 branches in 7 months
gcpappenginedaosterraformaws
daos-stack/google-cloud-daos
Jul 2021 - Aug 2022
Terraform modules for deploying DAOS on GCP
Contributions:3 releases, 42 reviews, 24 commits in 1 year 1 month
deployinggcpdaosterraform-modulesterraform
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