Summary
Mark Retallack is a Lead Software Engineer based in Poole, England, with two decades of embedded Linux expertise and a dozen years in professional roles focusing on Linux, software security, and hardware-adjacent systems. He currently leads engineering efforts at Yunex Traffic and holds a lead role at Siemens, driving secure, production-grade embedded solutions for critical infrastructure. Trained in Microelectronics & Computing (BEng Hons, Bournemouth University), he bridges low-level systems knowledge with practical product delivery. Mark is comfortable threat-modeling and hacking at the OS level to harden devices, bringing a hacker’s curiosity to formal engineering practices. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, auditable security improvements that don’t sacrifice performance or reliability. He combines long-term embedded roots with modern leadership in safety- and security-critical deployments.
11 years of coding experience
BEng (Hons), Microelectronics & computing, BEng (Hons), Microelectronics & computing at Bournemouth University