Mark Swarbrick

Mark Swarbrick has a diverse work experience in various roles and industries. Mark is currently the Head of Engineering at Bink, where they are responsible for managing the infrastructure and security of the Bink platform. Prior to this role, they served as the Head of Infrastructure and Security at Bink. In 2019, they joined Bink as the Head of Infrastructure, where they led the Infrastructure team and managed DevOps, platform hardening, scalability, cost management, roadmap planning, and internal support desk management for a cloud-native application stack.

Before joining Bink, Mark worked at Oracle as a Principal Presales Consultant for MySQL EMEA from 2012 to 2019. Mark also gained experience at Juniper Networks as a Professional Services Senior Consultant from 2011 to 2012. Prior to that, they worked at Level 3 Communications as the EU CDN Service Delivery Manager from 2007 to 2011. Mark started their career at Velocix as a Systems Administrator from 2005 to 2007.

Mark's earlier experiences include working as a Systems Development Engineer at Rentokil Initial from 2001 to 2003 and as a Systems Administrator at Kelkoo from 1997 to 1999.

Overall, Mark Swarbrick has demonstrated expertise in infrastructure management, security, pre-sales consulting, and service delivery across different industries.

Mark Swarbrick attended Bournemouth University from 1998 to 2001, where they obtained a BSc degree with a 2:1 classification in Business Computing. In terms of additional certifications, Mark Swarbrick obtained the Oracle Certified Professional (Part 2/2) - MySQL Administration certification from Oracle / Pearson Vue in February 2013. Mark also holds the Oracle Certified Associate - MySQL Administration certification, as well as the Oracle Certified Professional (Part 1/2) - MySQL Administration certification, although the dates of obtaining these certifications are not specified.