Summary
Mark Thompson is a software engineering manager with 14 years of hands-on experience building and optimizing cloud-native systems for Ag/Climate Tech, currently leading engineering at Square Roots in New York. He combines systems thinking and user-centric design to drive product and infrastructure improvements—most recently cutting platform costs by 40% while boosting observability and price/performance. His background spans full-stack development, AWS serverless architectures, IoT and blockchain prototypes, and applied research-to-classroom work as an adjunct professor, giving him a rare blend of startup pragmatism and academic rigor. Known for turning complex agritech challenges into operational platforms, he thrives at the intersection of product, innovation management, and sustainable food systems.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA German, BA German at Wayne State University
MPS Interactive Telecommunications, MPS Interactive Telecommunications at New York University
Junior Year in Munich German Language Literature & History, Junior Year in Munich German Language Literature & History at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München