Mark Fister Email & Phone Number

Stealth startup where gaming meets recruiting for neurodivergent talent. Do you know any ND talent in Information Security or who wants to break into InfoSec? Contact me!

Amsterdam, Nl

Non-linear thinking + being the change we want to see in the world + non-judgmentally showing up = The Octopus Movement

Currently serving:* Neurodiversity advisor for the LEGO Foundation.* Board member at Echoing Hope Ranch.* Advisor for Columbus NextWork* Volunteer with Autism Angels Group* Volunteer with various other organizations from time to time.

Melbourne, Florida, Us

At L3Harris, I had the opportunity to work with hardware, firmware, and software in the broadband communications space.

Lewes, Delaware, Us

Willing the good of the greater care team of autistic children, I performed the people management, backlog grooming, product management, back end coding, data, and DevSecOps tasks necessary to migrate this SaaS product from Heroku to Google Cloud, add new features, and assist with compliance. Ruby, Golang, bash, Docker, Eventide, Sidekiq, Delayed Jobs.

Servant Leadership Consulting is interested in two kinds of Good to Great hacks:* Help companies go from Good to Great.* Help people go from Good to Great.Worked in 3 spaces:1. Tech!2. Leadership Coaching3. Neurodiversity and Neuroinclusion#1 leveraged my lived and worked experience.#2 leveraged interviews of over 100 leaders and mindsets for joy, fulfillment, and success learned by interviewing those Growth, Outward, Mindful, Intentional, Non-judgmental, and Positivity Mindset leaders.#3 leveraged lived experience, leadership at auticon, and volunteering over the last 4 years in the Neurodiversity and Neuroinclusion space.

Los Angeles, California, Us

At auticon, I helped them achieve their vision.auticon’s Vision:Equitable opportunity employment for those on the Autism Spectrum.Smart companies realize that they want autistic talent for their meticulous, focused, loyal, open, honest, and direct work style. Smarter companies take action to find that talent. The smartest companies realize how hard that is, and contact auticon for help.Accomplishments:Assessed technical talent WITHOUT interviewing and helped build auticon's software, data, DevOps, and Information Security muscles.Technical evangelism via public speaking, including the Utah Data and Dev Conference and keynote for the 2021 Python Web Conference.Learning and development coach for 50+ technologists. Worked with each employee to draw their work and personal learning paths.

Lehi, Utah, Us

Presenting PremiSync and CloudSync, Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) technology that's different from anything else available. Daffinity is the only iPaaS company in the world that creates technologies specifically for small to medium businesses so that the expense of completing integrations is kept lower than anywhere else.Guaranteed.Daffinity's technology offers on-premise and cloud-based software integrations to sync and swim data in several seamless ways: (a) on-prem; (b) in-network; (c) in Daffinity's cloud; (d) in your cloud.For Daffinity, worked across several portfolio companies and licensees to deliver data to its destination(s) with all of the right system quality attributes such as Purifiability, Reliability, Observability, Maintainability, Performance, Testability, and Security).

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

APiO Technologies, Inc. was a FinTech dedicated to helping small to medium businesses put food on the table while simultaneously reducing the pain of manual work.For APiO, I headed up Platform and later, Product Management.If APiO were an octopus, with each suction cup being an accounting system integration via APiOSync, the tentacles being patent pending iPaaS technology from Daffinity Technologies that helps deliver Data-as-a-Service, the brain being APiO DeepSync delivering Risk-as-a-Service and Entity Resolution, and the skin being the user interface and user experience (UI/UX), then these were my purview.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Over nearly 18 years, I was promoted 5 times and had many titles including Distinguished Software Engineer, Distinguished SRE, Principal Architect, Chief Data Security Architect, and Director, Software Architecture.In InfoSec, I created a Data Security Manifesto, led a front and back door security rearchitecture, and began various initiatives across eBay/PayPal and its subsidiaries.In Partner Data Integration, I headed projects with PayPal's largest partners:* Facebook, Pinterest, and other social offerings* eBay, AliExpress, Uber, Airbnb, Stubhub, and other marketplaces* Bank of America, Citibank, Wells Fargo, FIS, and other financial institutions* Apple, Google, PayPal, Subway, Venmo, and other mobile wallets* Walmart, Jane, Dell, and other merchants* BigCommerce, Shopify, Magento, and other cart providers* Cardinal Commerce, Chase Paymentech, Braintree, Radial, and other merchant services partners* Bill Me Later, Synchrony, Latitude Financial, and other credit institutions* Zynga, Playstation, and other entertainment offerings* [24]7, LivePerson, and other chat offerings* ThreatMetrix, Zoot, Akamai, FICO, Acxiom, Equifax, Experian, and other data providers* Adjust, eDialog, Bluekai, and other marketing offeringsIdea North Stars (inventions):* Good to Great Individual Contributors (based on interviews of over 60 "Great" technologists across 4 companies), a social hack to spur employees to go from "Good" to "Great"* Inc Architecture presentation to new hires (including a get-out-of-your-seat activity, "Modeling Architecture Using Human Bodies")* Reinvented reliability for PayPal* A system for user to user payments facilitated by a third party (US Patent WO2012166957A3)* Idumbpotence (An Idempotence Methodology)* A new HTTP-based protocol (possible ETF standard)* Data Security Manifesto* Immutable Entities* Inter-corporate, sharded graph database (before they were invented)* Perl Batch Framework* Internationalization Framework

Us

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Programmed in C, C++, Perl, and SQL.

Minor, Mathematics

Major, Computer Science

Computer Science