Mark FussellFounder

United States - Greater Seattle Area

CEO of a developer focused startup. Leader with proven track record of building innovative computing platforms, running large scale, cloud services, building OSS communities and starting new businesses.

I have 30 years of experience building go-to-market strategies, running product teams, engaging with engineering and extensive public speaking, including major conferences. I have presented proposals to VPs , formed strong, cross group collaborations, understood how to focus on solving real-world, hard problems and shipped many successful products. I have deep developer empathy and regularly design solutions for customers.

Co-founded the Distributed Applications Runtime project, Dapr (https://dapr.io/) in 2019, one of the fastest growing open source projects focused on application developers.

Previously product manager for Azure Service Fabric which I started in 2009. Service Fabric is an innovative application platform to build and operate cloud scale applications using a microservice architecture and is used by all Microsoft hyperscale services such as Azure SQL database, CosmosDB, Intune, Dynamics 365, Teams, and more

My professional approach:
- Build great teams and motivate others
- Demonstrate a growth mindset
- Seek diverse experiences and opinions
- Think long term with the expediency of today
- Courtesy, integrity, honesty to everyone