AI Developer Tooling Engineering Leader

Mark is an engineering leader with over 12 years of experience building products, infrastructure, and teams, from early-stage startups to systems serving millions of users. He excels at aligning product goals, infrastructure, and team structure, stabilizing systems, improving developer experience, and reducing manual operations to help teams ship efficiently. Recently, he has focused on practical AI-assisted development, including coding agents, developer tooling, custom harnesses, retrieval, local inference, repo-local context, and workflow changes to ensure reliable AI tools for engineering teams. He is interested in AI that enhances maintainability, feedback loops, and operational leverage. His background includes roles at Calm, YC-backed startups, and nonprofit technology organizations, and he currently consults through Opertus Systems, assisting organizations with infrastructure modernization, engineering velocity, team scaling, and shipping production-ready AI-powered systems. He is seeking roles in Engineering Leadership, Platform/Infrastructure/DevEx, AI Developer Tooling, Technical Product Leadership, or Fractional CTO/advisory work.