Mark Sivill

Mark Sivill has over 20 years of work experience in various roles related to sales engineering and solution development. Mark is currently working as a Solutions Engineer at Kong Inc since July 2022. Prior to their current role, Mark worked as a Senior Sales Engineer at Splunk from January 2016 to July 2022. Before that, they founded a company called fluxgain and served as its Founder from March 2012 to December 2015.

Mark's earlier work experience includes roles at Salesforce.com as a Principal Sales Engineer, where they worked in sales engineer teams covering functional, technical, and platform roles from August 2007 to February 2012. Mark had notable achievements such as designing and prototyping a complex matrix security model, conducting build-it-now days to showcase custom applications to prospects, and co-developing and presenting workshops at events like Dreamforce.

Prior to Salesforce.com, Mark worked as a Presales Consultant at Cape Clear from July 2006 to June 2007, contributing to bringing in a new named account and receiving additional stock options in the United Kingdom. Mark also founded Gridwell from May 2005 to June 2006.

Mark's earlier experience includes working as a Presales Consultant at webMethods, providing technical support to sales teams and working with various third-party applications across industries in the UK and South Africa from 2003 to April 2005. Mark also held Presales Consultant roles at IBM and CrossWorlds Software, specializing in process integration and providing support to sales teams across Europe and EMEA regions.

Mark's career began at Oracle as a Presales Consultant in the Retail and Services group, where they provided technical support to account managers and delivered presentations and demonstrations on Oracle's product offerings. Mark also worked as a Consultant at Oracle, undertaking roles in prototyping, proof of concept, build, design, and teaching in various projects.

Overall, Mark Sivill has a comprehensive background in sales engineering, solution development, and pre-sales support across multiple industries and technology platforms.

Mark Sivill obtained a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Computer Science and Management Studies from the University of Nottingham. In September 2020, they also acquired the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification from Amazon Web Services (AWS).