Mark Stokan
Software Engineer at Pivotal Software Inc
Walnut Creek, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Stokan is a seasoned Software Engineer and cloud operations specialist with over a decade of hands-on experience building and running resilient, cloud-native platforms. He has driven DevOps and SRE practices across startups and enterprise teams—spanning AWS, VMware, and bare-metal colo migrations—at companies including VMware, Broadcom, Pivotal, and multiple high-growth game and SaaS shops. Comfortable from deep systems work (kernel tuning, SAN/NAS, VMware ESXi) to modern CI/CD, orchestration, and monitoring stacks, he frequently bridges development and operations to accelerate reliable releases. Based in Walnut Creek, CA, Mark pairs pragmatic automation (Python, Puppet, Fabric, cobbler/kickstart) with a strong history of migrating and modernizing infrastructure. Notably, he’s navigated full data center migrations and complex hybrid environments, giving him a rare mix of legacy systems expertise and cloud-first operational rigor.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (53)
vsphere10
gcp10
command-line-utility10
teamspeak10
vcenter10
cloud-foundry9
bosh9
terraform-templates9
pivotal9
continuous-integration9
elm9
terraform9
concourse9
aws9
golang9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
vmware-archive/teamspeak-bosh-release
May 2015 - Aug 2018
A bosh release of the teamspeak application
Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 3 months
teamspeak
vmware-archive/cron-resource
Aug 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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