About Me

I'm Marks Polakovs.

I'm a DevOps, software dev, broadcast, and theatre tech person based out of Cambridge (UK).

Work

I currently work as a DevOps Engineer at Darktrace.

Before that I was a part-time Digital Support Technician at the University of York Students' Union, where in addition to first- and second-line user support I gave training sessions, developed internal systems, and contributed to a full redesign and rebuild of our website (it's public!).

Before that I did a Year in Industry at Couchbase in Manchester, rotating through first- and second-line technical support and Go back-end development roles. (Some of my contributions there are public!)

Not Work

I went to the University of York, where I probably spent more time in the student radio and television scene than I did doing my degree (don't tell my lecturers). This gave me a lot of my initial software development, systems admin, and DevOps experience.

I built and maintained systems there to handle internal processes, such as member management and show scheduling, broadcasting from home, and media management for live broadcast.

Technologies I Know

Programming languages:

• Most confident in Python, TypeScript, and Go
• Proficient in Java, PHP, Bash
• On-and-off learning Rust
• Know just enough C to be dangerous

Other tools:

• Proficient with Docker
• Proficient with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI
• Experiened with HashiCorp Nomad/Consul/Vault
• Learning Kubernetes (including through this website)

Elsewhere on the internet

• Bluesky
• LinkedIn

Getting in touch

Email marks [at] this domain. If you mention the capital of Slovenia somewhere in the email, it'll make my filters less likely to think you're a bot.