Mark Wolfe
Principal Engineer at Buildkite
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Wolfe is a Principal Engineer based in Melbourne with 16 years of experience building cloud-native, serverless and containerised systems, primarily on AWS. He blends hands-on engineering in Go and JavaScript with leadership — mentoring teams, guiding cloud practices, and driving secure, reliable delivery across dev, ops and security. An active open-source contributor, Mark has improved projects ranging from MQTT.js and Buildkite Agent to Apache Arrow and saml2aws, bringing practical fixes, tests and feature work that span IoT, CI tooling and data formats. He speaks at JavaScript, Security and Go events and documents his learnings on wolfe.id.au, helping bridge practitioner knowledge with production realities. Outside day-to-day work he builds robotics and IoT projects and contributes hobbyist hardware work, reflecting a genuine maker’s curiosity that informs his systems thinking.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Cisco CCNA Course, Cisco CCNA Course at Box Hill Tafe
Github Skills (39)
javascript10
saml10
testing10
mqtt10
user-authentication10
authentication10
cicd10
mqttnet10
java10
apache-arrow10
dropwizard10
javas10
go10
jdbi10
aws10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Versent/saml2aws
Sep 2016 - Nov 2022
CLI tool which enables you to login and retrieve AWS temporary credentials using a SAML IDP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:67 releases, 7 reviews, 664 commits in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily worked on improving the `saml2aws` tool by providing more helpful error messages in the output. They also added a configuration file to save and load the last-used username, the first instance of saving credentials, and added a command for logging in to access the AWS console. Further improvements include adding a session duration setting and adding support for automatically assuming the target IAM roles.
idpsaml-idpcredentialsawsretrieve
buildkite/agent
May 2014 - Aug 2019
The Buildkite Agent is an open-source toolkit written in Go for securely running build jobs on any device or network
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:74 reviews, 9 commits, 67 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mark contributed to the Buildkite Agent project by fixing bugs related to printing and typos, and implemented new features. They added support for ARM architecture and improved the build process with a Makefile. Furthermore, the user worked on enhancing the S3 artifact upload functionality, incorporating encryption at rest and improving existing code by deferring flushing of the body.
continuous-deploymentgolangbuild-jobsjobsenvironments
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