Yair Mark
Chief Technology Officer at Dis-Chem Life
Johannesburg Metropolitan Area South Africa
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Top SchoolYair Mark is a technology leader and Chief Technology Officer with 11 years of hands-on software engineering experience and a formal background in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of the Witwatersrand. He has led engineering teams and delivery across six industries, progressing from developer roles at Accenture and Entelect to blockchain and full-stack work at Rand Merchant Bank and executive CTO roles at OneSpark and Dis-Chem Life. Yair favors pragmatic, user-focused technology choices and a relentless pursuit of simplicity, viewing software as an elegant, useful creative outlet. He blends product-minded leadership with deep implementation experience across backend, blockchain and full-stack systems, regularly shipping solutions that balance technical rigor with business needs. Based in Johannesburg, he thrives when building useful things, learning continuously, and improving team outcomes. An early entrepreneurial streak—selling a childhood drawing—underscores his long-standing drive to create tangible value.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Computer Science, Honours Computer Science at University of the Witwatersrand
Github Skills (1)
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Github contributions (5)
8bitme/intellij-java-livetemplates
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes in 1 day
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