Mark Pimentel
Principal Engineer at Ripple
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Pimentel is a Principal Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building resilient CI/CD, configuration management, and deployment automation for multi-platform, multi-tier applications. He has led cloud and platform engineering at fintech and enterprise firms—currently at Ripple and Rail—bringing deep expertise in Chef, Jenkins, Git migrations, and automated AWS provisioning. Mark’s career blends technical leadership and practitioner work: he’s architected enterprise build systems, authored Chef cookbooks at scale, and implemented repeatable build/release processes for Java, C++, and iOS across distributed environments. Known for mentoring teams and running workshops, he excels at turning brittle manual ops into auditable, automated delivery pipelines. An early mover on infrastructure-as-code and a pragmatic toolsmith, he often pairs configuration automation with process change to accelerate delivery while reducing risk.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
DeVry Institute of Technology
Github Skills (46)
vagrant7
automation6
ansible6
docker6
ruby6
java6
maintenance6
devops5
virtualization5
scheduler5
provisioning5
audit5
continuous-integration5
operation5
visualization5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
xeon22/chef-janitor
Oct 2012 - Nov 2014
Contributions:2 commits, 4 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years
cookbookjanitorchef-resourcemanaged-by-terraformchef
xeon22/sample-cookbook
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:5 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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