Mark Pearl
VP Of Engineering at Serko
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolMark Pearl is a business-savvy, values-driven technology leader with 25 years in software and 13 years in senior engineering roles, currently serving as VP of Engineering at Serko in Auckland. He specializes in scaling engineering organizations and modernizing platform foundations—bringing legacy and new capabilities together while driving AI-native practices, cost-conscious cloud operations, and data-informed delivery. Mark has a proven track record growing teams from small groups to 200+ engineers across multiple countries, and he champions engineering excellence, inclusive culture, and career development. He also has deep experience coaching teams out of crisis into high-performing, self-organising units and designed large graduate training programmes at MYOB, reflecting a long-standing commitment to mentorship and capability building. Less obvious: he combines hands-on product and company-building experience from founding a software firm with strategic leadership in enterprise travel tech, giving him both operator grit and systems-level perspective.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
University of South AfricaHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOL KZN
English, Afrikaans, Xhosa
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Github contributions (5)
MarkPearlCoZa/markpearl.github.com
Jan 2015 - Oct 2024
Contributions:43 pushes in 9 years 10 months
MarkPearlCoZa/Blog_General
Jan 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4021 pushes, 5 branches, 7 issues in 10 years 4 months
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