Mark Wolters
Software Engineer at DataStax
Peachtree Corners, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Wolters is a seasoned software engineer with 8 years of recent experience and a 20+ year career building high-performance, distributed systems for finance, telecom, and data platforms. Currently at DataStax, he moved from solutions architect to hands-on engineering, bringing deep expertise in Cassandra, Spark, Kafka and multi-cloud deployments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and production orchestration with Docker/Kubernetes. He has repeatedly designed and tuned low-latency architectures—from exchange surveillance and trading engines to large-scale NoSQL and stream-processing platforms—combining Java, Scala and Python proficiency with practical capacity planning and performance testing. Comfortable in both pre-sales and delivery roles, he pairs client-facing architecture work with implementation and training, translating complex requirements into operable, monitored systems. A background in psychology and formal software engineering study gives him a pragmatic, user-aware approach to solving technical risk and operational challenges.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
in Master of Science, Software Engineering, in Master of Science, Software Engineering at DePaul UniversityBachelor of Science, Psychology, Bachelor of Science, Psychology at Tulane University NewBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Devry University Kansas
Github Skills (23)
javascript10
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pluggable10
docker10
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linux10
benchmarking10
java10
nosqlbench10
cql10
knn10
nosql9
similarity-search9
search-engine9
distributed-systems9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MarkWolters/dse-cluster-migration
Feb 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 year 1 month
MarkWolters/tmobile-gatling-dse-sims
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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