Mark Steffen 🇨🇦💪's Linkedin Analytics

With an IT career spanning decades, I bring a wealth of hands-on leadership and creative problem solving experience in Cybersecurity, Cloud, Advanced Networking, and Linux/core infrastructure. I'm passionate about protecting systems and data, designing resilient architectures, and driving innovative solutions in mixed cloud/IT/OT/legacy environments. Currently serving as a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer for over 9 years in the critical manufacturing sector, I hold top industry certifications including CISSP, CCSP, and AWS Certified Solutions Architect. In addition to my professional work, I actively experiment with self-hosted AI models, legacy application/environment containment, an ever-evolving open source "enterprise IT alternatives" stack, and deploy and maintain various other homelab projects, continuously expanding my technical horizon. Beyond tech, I’m engaged in my community as the vice-chair of the Perth East Public Library board. I'm an avid non-fiction reader and aspiring polyglot. I enjoy travel and camping with my family, cycling the G2G trail, and amateur radio. My entrepreneurial roots, including launching and running one of the first ISPs in southern Ontario, have honed my leadership, business acumen, and problem-solving skills. Always eager to connect with forward-thinking professionals and explore opportunities to lead, innovate, and make a meaningful impact. Opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer, wife, family, fellow parishioners, neighbours or pets.