Mark Pruett
Senior Software Engineering Manager at NVIDIA
United States
Summary
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RockstarMark Pruett is a senior software engineering manager with a five-year track record leading Kubernetes and cloud-native engineering teams across AWS, DuckDuckGo, and now NVIDIA. He has hands-on experience in DevOps and automation—contributing to Amazon's widely used EKS Distro by improving build/release automation, CI/CD pipelines, and checksum and attribution hygiene. Known for bridging managerial strategy with technical execution, he’s guided teams through scaling, reliability, and release-process maturity in both startup and large-enterprise settings. His background includes founding operational technology ventures and leading engineering at consumer and enterprise-focused companies, giving him a pragmatic, product-aware approach to platform work. Based in the United States, he combines a knack for shipping robust infrastructure with a focus on preventing premature merges and other operational pitfalls that often cause production risk.
5 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (18)
amazon-eks10
kubernetes10
github-ci10
build-system10
iks10
cicd10
automation10
go10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
automations10
githubaction-workflow10
k8s10
k10
dockers9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aws/eks-distro
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Amazon EKS Distro (EKS-D) is a Kubernetes distribution based on and used by Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to create reliable and secure Kubernetes clusters.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:3 releases, 357 reviews, 39 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to automating and improving the build and release processes for the EKS Distro project. Their work included fixing build configurations related to Go versions, adding and maintaining checksums, and updating attribution files. They also implemented changes to the CI/CD pipeline, adding a hold mechanism to the pull request creation process to prevent premature merging.
amazon-ekskuberneteskubernetes-clusterkubernetes-serviceaws
markapruett/eks-distro-build-tooling
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
This repository contains tooling used to build the EKS Distro, and all the projects contained in https://github.com/aws/eks-distro.
Contributions:27 pushes, 13 branches, 29 issues in 2 years 4 months
ekskubernetesaws-eksdistroaws
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