Mark Severson
Member Of Technical Staff at Veeam Kasten K10
Herriman, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Severson is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Veeam Kasten K10, who thrives on untangling complex, multi-system problems and improving existing tools. He has led teams and architectures—building systems that tracked billions of test results and expanding deployment tooling to over 80% of projects—while also delivering mission-critical real-time public safety systems earlier in his career. A pragmatic back-end and DevOps practitioner, Mark contributes to notable open-source projects such as LicenseFinder and the CNCF Kanister project, where he improved Go module handling and dependency/security management. He blends hands-on coding with management experience, favoring incremental improvements that leave systems measurably better than he found them. Based in Herriman, Utah, he brings a mix of systems thinking, cross-team leadership, and a curiosity for optimizations that aren’t obvious until they’re fixed.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Western Governors University
Github Skills (10)
dependency-management10
kubernetes10
package-manager10
go10
cloud-native10
kubernetes-pods10
golang9
net9
operator8
ruby4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kanisterio/kanister
May 2020 - Jun 2021
An extensible framework for application-level data management on Kubernetes, Kanister is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project and was originally created by the Veeam Kasten team.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:36 reviews, 8 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on maintaining and upgrading the project's dependencies, particularly those related to Kubernetes. They addressed compatibility issues by downgrading specific Kubernetes modules and later reverting the changes. Additionally, they restructured the codebase by moving controller logic into a separate package. Furthermore, the user contributed to package compatibility with Go modules and addressed security vulnerabilities in dependencies.
golangdata-managementdata-protectionoperatorkubernetes
pivotal/LicenseFinder
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Find licenses for your project's dependencies.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 9 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on improving the Go modules implementation within the `licensefinder` project. Their contributions included fixing how the tool identifies Go modules by adjusting the package selectors and module path references. Furthermore, the user removed unnecessary commands such as "go mod tidy" and "go mod vendor" from the process, optimizing dependency management. They also updated the tool to list imported modules instead of all possible module dependencies, aligning the behavior with other package managers.
licensesdependencieserlangruby
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