Mark Payne
Software Engineer at Snowflake
Laurel, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Payne is a software engineer with a decade-plus track record building high-throughput, distributed data systems and a year of recent roles at Datavolo and Snowflake. He led development of a project that became Apache NiFi while at Sotera, architecting globally distributed dataflow applications handling tens of millions of events and terabytes per node per day. His career spans senior engineering and principal roles at Hortonworks and Cloudera, reflecting deep expertise in scalable, clustered systems and live-operable data pipelines. Mark combines hands-on implementation with architectural leadership, thriving on requirements that demand provenance, live reconfiguration, and horizontal scaling. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins and a B.S. from the University of Kentucky, and brings both startup and enterprise experience—including co-founding Onyara—that informs pragmatic, production-ready designs. An understated strength is his focus on creating systems that let users evolve dataflows in real time without redeployment, a capability few engineers prioritize.
1 year of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Kentucky
Github Skills (3)
java10
apache9
apache-nifi9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
apache/nifi
Dec 2024 - Apr 2025
Apache NiFi
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 comments in 3 months
javanifiapacheapache-nifi
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