Mark Petrovich
Certified Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute Coach at PayPal
Petaluma, California, United States
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Top SchoolMark Petrovich is a seasoned technology leader and certified executive coach based in Petaluma, California, with 18 years of experience building resilient, large-scale systems and guiding engineering teams through operational and architectural challenges. His career blends deep technical roles—spanning observability, API gateways, service mesh, cloud architecture, and early internet infrastructure—with senior leadership positions at PayPal, EarthLink, and Sprint. He trains leaders in Decision Room Craft to normalize candor and precision, pairing coaching with hands-on expertise to accelerate better technical decisions. A former physicist (Ph.D. in physics) who began in research and hardware failure analysis, Mark brings a scientist’s rigor to software reliability and systems design. He has repeatedly moved between founding startups and scaling enterprise engineering, making him equally comfortable with prototyping novel services and running production at scale.
19 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at Oklahoma State University
Stackoverflow
2,678reputation
530kreached
6answers
13questions
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tomcat
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jdbc
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Github Skills (200)
go-modules10
programming-language10
rkt10
http10
docker-desktop10
scheduling10
gorilla10
webserver10
microservices10
mesos10
middleware10
tomcat10
pods10
golang10
database10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ae6rt/decap
Aug 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:636 commits, 12 PRs, 586 pushes in 1 year 10 months
build-serverdevopsdockerbackendkubernetes
ae6rt/jyaml
Aug 2016 - May 2021
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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