Mark Wild
Hey! I'm Mark, and I’ve spent 5 years in the aerospace industry, helping launch rockets and manufacture satellite engines. I have over a decade of service industry experience, a background in software engineering, and I currently specialize in IT infrastructure. I like to solve technical problems by bridging technology, and strategy to deliver impactful results. I am interested in education, third spaces, literature, and the environment.
Work
Building Bridges in Manufacturing
My vocation is collaboration and clear communication, which I bring to every role. The values I live by are simplicity, trust, and meaningful work.
At Astra, I built human-centered software to support aerospace manufacturing and developed tools for engineers to analyze flight and test vehicle performance. My foundation in manufacturing stems from my time working in inventory, where I interacted with nearly every part of the vehicle throughout its development lifecycle.
These days I mostly work up and down the IP/TCP stack — designing and maintaining the infrastructure that keeps our systems, services, and people connected. It's fun work, sometimes complex, and it fits my software side perfectly. I still code — building tools, automating fixes, scripting my way out of weird network puzzles. There's something satisfying about knowing how the packets move and how the software breathes on top of it all.