Mark Sargent
Chief Technology Officer at SHIFT72
Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Sargent is a pragmatic Chief Technology Officer with two decades of experience leading engineering and cloud initiatives across industries from agriculture to global video streaming. He combines hands-on backend work—recently contributing fixes and TLS enhancements to the widely used Caddy web server—with strategic leadership roles at Shift72 and Gallagher, guiding teams through both startup and enterprise environments. Known for a "brutally pragmatic" software philosophy, he prioritizes simple, deliverable-driven solutions and carefully weighs long-lived technical decisions. He leans technically conservative, skeptical of silver bullets, and excels at aligning people, process, and technology to deliver reliable systems at scale. Based in Tauranga, New Zealand, he brings a rare mix of operational discipline and practical open-source experience that helps bridge immediate product needs with sustainable architecture.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at University of OtagoHillcrest High School
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
http10
go10
caddyfile10
libtls9
tls139
tls129
mtls9
reverse-proxy7
nservicebus6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
caddyserver/caddy
Nov 2019 - Jun 2020
Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 16 commits, 44 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on enhancing the Caddy web server's functionality by addressing issues related to query matcher parsing and environment variable handling within the Caddyfile. They implemented fixes for parsing errors and improved the handling of environment variables within the configuration files. Additionally, the user contributed to the TLS configuration by adding support for `acme_ca_root` and `tls/ca_root` directives, as well as implementing the global default SNI option.
reverse-proxymulti-platformhttp-servertlsextensible
indiereign/shaka-player
Jun 2015 - Dec 2020
JavaScript player library / DASH client / MSE-EME player
Contributions:15 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 7 months
dashhtml5-videojavascriptjavascript-playerbaduk
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