Mark Sandan
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Teradata
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolMark Sandan is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, high-performance distributed systems and cloud analytics infrastructure, currently leading architecture work at Teradata. He designs and implements containerized, serverless, extensible runtimes that enable UDFs and third-party workloads to run safely across MPP databases and public cloud platforms. Fluent in Python, Go, and C/C++, he combines deep systems knowledge—Linux internals, multithreaded execution, and compiler/runtime interoperability—with hands-on Kubernetes, Docker, gRPC, and AWS/Azure/GCP expertise. His practice blends research-style experimentation, threat modeling, and reproducible proofs-of-concept with production delivery, and has contributed to open-source ecosystems and patent filings. Based in San Diego, he brings a rare mix of theoretical curiosity and pragmatic engineering that bridges programming languages, secure isolation, and large-scale cloud computation.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
English
Github Skills (107)
programming-language10
python10
interpreter10
sagemaker10
cpp10
dialect10
geographic10
golang10
compiler10
jupyter10
goplus10
reinforcement-learning10
go10
odin10
jupyter-notebook10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sandan/sqlalchemy-teradata
Oct 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 9 months
teradatapythondialectsqlalchemy
Teradata/sqlalchemy-teradata
Jul 2016 - Feb 2019
A SQLAlchemy dialect for Teradata
Contributions:72 commits, 25 PRs, 61 pushes in 2 years 7 months
teradatapythondialectsqlalchemy
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