Mark Soper

Mark Soper

Builder of data, cloud, and AI infrastructure products

Products

CockroachDB

CockroachDB · Product Manager 2021–2025 — Led product for CockroachDB Cloud operational tooling (API, Terraform Provider, CLI) and CockroachDB Cloud Serverless — an autoscaling, multi-tenant distributed SQL database.

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning · Software Engineer 2018–2021 — Built cloud platform software at Microsoft's NERD Center in Cambridge, MA, improving how data scientists develop and operationalize machine learning models.

Brightcove

Brightcove · Tech Lead 2017–2018 — Led a team of 5 engineers developing the backend API for a Fortune 500 media company's web/mobile application, scaled for millions of users globally.

VMware

VMware · Software Engineer 2016 — Built the Angular web application for the vSphere Docker Volume Driver, enabling Docker container administrators to manage vSphere Storage access.

Invite Education

Invite Education · Product Lead 2013–2014 — Translated the founders' vision for a better college planning experience into a successful product. Led a team of three to design and build the initial version with Rails, Angular, and D3.

Rally

Rally · Founder 2009–2010 — Founded and built a service that mined Twitter for local events data using NLP and machine learning to help people make casual plans. Designed and developed all aspects — Python, Django, Twitter Streaming API, MongoDB, Redis, AWS.

Likematter

Likematter · Founder 2008–2009 — Founded and led a team building a personalized news and job discovery engine using NLP and machine learning on the OpenCalais platform.

Writing