Mark Schurman is a seasoned software engineer with over 27 years of experience designing, building, and testing systems from hardware-level OS internals to backend services and mobile apps. Based in Seattle, he spent much of his career at Microsoft and F5 Networks delivering tooling, automation, and product features that improved engineering efficiency and enabled large-scale device and firmware validation. He has deep expertise in test automation, telemetry-driven product decisions, parallelism/concurrency, and pragmatic fixes that minimize risk. Known for mentoring peers and turning operational pain points into reliable tooling, he combines low-level debugging chops with data-informed product work. Now retired and planning his next phase, he remains focused on reducing friction for engineers and applying his systems-level perspective to new challenges.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE Electrical Engineering Software Engineering, BSEE Electrical Engineering Software Engineering at University of Washington
Japanese Language, Japanese Language at Y&Y Language Institute (Japanese classes at Microsoft)
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Mark Schurman - Retired at F5Networks (prev: Microsoft)