Summary
Mark Puddick is a senior pre-sales technologist and solutions architect with over 15 years of hands-on software and delivery experience, now focused on driving Search and AI adoption across APJ at Elastic. He combines deep technical expertise from millisecond-critical capital markets systems at Deutsche Bank and Macquarie with startup-building experience as a former CTO and co-founder who successfully exited a venture. At Elastic he has repeatedly been a top performer—shaping large security deals, designing cloud/hybrid architectures, and leading pre-sales teams and enablement across enterprise customers. His background spans databases, observability, security and platform engineering from roles at MongoDB, Pivotal/VMware Tanzu and earlier telecom and banking projects, enabling pragmatic, performance-focused solutions. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex technical constraints into customer ROI and run hands-on workshops and DOJO-style accelerators that upskill teams. Based in Sydney, he brings both delivery-led credibility and commercial pre-sales acumen to help organisations operationalise search and AI at scale.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Information Systems Engineering, BEng Information Systems Engineering at University of Surrey