Mark Thistle
Technical Lead at Magnet Forensics
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMark Thistle is a Technical Lead with 11 years of professional software engineering experience, currently leading Magnet Forensics' Brain Team to productize ML and AI research that accelerates digital evidence discovery. His career blends embedded, backend, and mobile expertise from roles at Microsoft, BlackBerry, and defense contractors, with a strong track record of migrating teams and tooling (TFVC→Git, TFS→VSTS) and improving developer processes. He is pragmatic about quality and automation—driving large refactors, introducing unit and system test frameworks, and cutting build times by a third. Known for mentoring engineering teams through platform and workflow transitions, he pairs hands-on implementation with architecture-level thinking. Based in Ottawa, he focuses on building AI systems that solve previously intractable problems, translating research prototypes into usable products that reduce time-to-evidence and protect the innocent. An often-overlooked strength is his history of integrating diverse open-source components and legacy systems into cohesive, testable products, enabling teams to ship more confidently.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Computer Science, B.Sc Computer Science at Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador
English, French
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iphone6
modeling6
swift3
visual-studio1
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Github contributions (5)
mthistle/BandSensorSwift
Apr 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
mthistle/SendHapticSwift
Mar 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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