DevOps expert, specializing in building teams of customer-facing architects to tackle some of the largest analytics challenges throughout the stack. More than 15 years experience building and scaling enterprise architectures and environments both as an architect and as an operator, with the last 7 of those years spent focusing these efforts onto enterprise pre-sales. My current efforts are focused on building and scaling teams of trusted pre-sales advisors who are also thoroughly technical and can provide extensive value throughout the stack (and the sales cycle!) Having led this process from inception several times at my previous ventures, I have refined a unique approach to solutions selling that has led my teams to record-breaking company quarters over the past several years. I still write code as needed (C++, Python, Ruby) and enjoy rolling up my sleeves and digging in to customer deployments on a regular basis. This includes designing / deploying / scaling infrastructure for customers as well as recruiting/hiring top talent for our global teams. I've worked with and hired/deployed sales engineering teams in more than 20 US states and 12 countries over the past 4 years. I've also built, scaled and implemented more than a dozen full-stack cloud infrastructure deployments (both private and public) for various customers comprising hundreds of servers or more, and have overseen rollout of entire datacenter-level deployment initiatives. My background aside from software and distributed systems engineering is in Human-Computer Interaction; both UX design and research. I've written a few papers published in ACM regarding some of the systems I designed and built while at Google for UX Research. I've also worked extensively both designing new and implementing existing high availability file systems, focusing on leveraging commodity hardware with intelligent caching for maximum scalability.

Vice President, Solutions Architecture @ From October 2015 to Present (3 months) San Francisco Bay AreaDirector, Solutions Architecture @ From April 2014 to October 2015 (1 year 7 months) San Francisco Bay AreaAdvisor @ From July 2011 to September 2014 (3 years 3 months) San Francisco Bay AreaDirector, Sales Engineering @ From April 2013 to April 2014 (1 year 1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaPrincipal Architect @ From March 2010 to April 2013 (3 years 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Sales Engineer @ From February 2010 to April 2013 (3 years 3 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Sales Engineer @ From October 2008 to March 2010 (1 year 6 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSystems Engineer/Architect/UX Researcher @ From September 2006 to November 2008 (2 years 3 months) San Francisco Bay AreaCo-Founder/CEO @ From April 2003 to August 2008 (5 years 5 months) Greater Detroit AreaUser Experience Researcher (Intern) @ From May 2006 to August 2006 (4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaTechnician/Consultant @ From 1997 to 2002 (5 years) Greater Detroit Area

MSI-Human Computer Interaction, School of Information @ University of Michigan From 2005 to 2007 Computer Science Engineering, Engineering @ University of Michigan From 2001 to 2005 Mark LaRosa is skilled in: VMware, User Experience Design, Solaris, Storage Area Networks, VMware Infrastructure, NAS, Linux, Citrix, Sun Cluster, SAN, Storage, Hyper-V, XenServer, Mac OS X, Network Architecture