Summary
Mark Walters is a solutions-driven Software Development Engineer based in Seattle with eight years of experience designing cross-platform, multithreaded, and networked systems—primarily in C++ with extensive use of Qt and Boost. He has a proven track record of delivering scalable, high-availability solutions on AWS, modernizing mission-critical systems, and automating test and deployment environments to improve quality and reduce costs. His background spans enterprise Java, embedded Linux, Windows services, and rapid prototyping across diverse domains including healthcare, augmented reality advertising, racing simulators, and media distribution. Comfortable both as a contractor and in large organizations like Amazon, he excels at translating complex requirements into maintainable architectures and pragmatic implementations. Colleagues praise his lifecycle discipline, deep data-structure and design knowledge, and his habit of quickly adopting new languages and tools as projects demand. An interesting aside: despite a professional software pedigree, his GitHub bio wryly notes a current stint as a forklift driver at a potato warehouse—hinting at a pragmatic, down-to-earth sense of humor.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering, Software Engineering at RMIT University