Summary
Mark Pashby is a security-oriented Staff Platform Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable, secure cloud and big-data platforms across high-growth and enterprise environments. He combines hands-on engineering with leadership, having grown platform teams, launched paved-road developer experiences for 400+ engineers, and cut bootstrapping times from days to minutes. As a Security Architect and advocate for “Secure by Default” design, he has led SIEM/SOC unification, automated GRC, and eradicated high-severity cloud risks while improving incident response and observability. His tool-driven approach spans Terraform, Vault, CI/CD and Golang CLI work that became daily tooling at DAZN, reflecting a focus on practical developer productivity. Based in Stony Stratford, he pairs pragmatic operational instincts with an amateur cryptologist’s curiosity, often translating security theory into production-ready controls.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
GCSE's, English, Maths, Science, Others, B-D's, GCSE's, English, Maths, Science, Others, B-D's at Fitzwimarc Secondary School
Information Technology, AVCE (2 Alevels) - AS Computing, Information Technology, AVCE (2 Alevels) - AS Computing at SEEVIC College