MarkĀ Sutherland
Senior Manager, Routing IP Software Engineering at Ciena
Newtongrange, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMark Sutherland is a Senior Manager in Routing IP Software Engineering with 12+ years building carrier-grade network software and orchestration tooling, currently leading microservice and container-based network orchestration efforts at Ciena. His background spans deep packet-forwarding and QoS work in C and DPDK, NFV orchestration, CI/CD and release systems, and cross-language integration on Debian-based routers, reflecting hands-on expertise from silicon-level analog projects to large-scale network software. He combines strong debugging, performance and scaling chops honed at Cisco and AT&T with practical leadership of engineering teams delivering secure, production-ready systems. Based in Scotland with an MEng in Electronics & Computer Science from Edinburgh, he has a proven track record of turning complex networking requirements into reliable, automatable delivery pipelines. An engineer who still dives into packaging, CI and low-level performance tuning, he bridges hardware awareness and cloud-native software practice to drive operational excellence.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Electronics & Computer Science, MEng, Electronics & Computer Science at The University of Edinburgh
Github Skills (61)
jenkins-plugin10
jenkins10
pip10
jenkins-ci10
ansible-role10
high-availability9
pipfile9
bare-metal9
python-development9
continuous-integration9
python9
kubernetes-cluster9
packaging9
virtualenv9
ansible9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
marksutherland/techmeetup.co.uk
Jul 2015 - Mar 2018
The Website behind Techmeetup.co.uk
Contributions:15 pushes, 23 branches in 2 years 8 months
javascriptreact
marksutherland/pipenv
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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