Mark Fickett
About Mark Fickett
Mark Fickett is a Staff Data Engineer at Form Energy, Inc., where he has worked since 2021. He has a background in software engineering with experience at companies such as Google, Verily Life Sciences, and Sony Pictures Imageworks.
Work at Form Energy
Mark Fickett has been employed at Form Energy, Inc. as a Staff Data Engineer since 2021. In this role, he has contributed to several key projects, including the selection and implementation of OpenTelemetry and Honeycomb observability, which replaced a previous text-based logging approach. He also designed and implemented a parsing and simulation library for an undocumented battery cycling domain-specific language. Additionally, he replaced a JSON-based parsing system and automated a manual documentation process, resulting in significant time savings for the team. His work has led to the first usage of structured tracing at Form Energy, which was later adopted by two other teams.
Previous Experience in Software Engineering
Prior to his current role, Mark Fickett held several positions in software engineering. He worked at Google as a Senior Software Engineer from 2011 to 2017, where he focused on various software development projects. After Google, he joined Verily Life Sciences as a Software Engineer from 2017 to 2020. He then served as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Valo Health for one year, from 2020 to 2021. Earlier in his career, he worked at Sony Pictures Imageworks as a Software Engineer from 2008 to 2010 and interned at Vanguard Animation in 2007.
Education and Expertise
Mark Fickett earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) in Digital Media Design from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied from 2004 to 2008. His educational background has provided him with a solid foundation in software engineering and design principles, which he has applied throughout his career in various roles across the technology and entertainment industries.