New York

October 15–17, 2025

Berlin

November 3–4, 2025

Mark Robinson

Mark is a passionate engineer who loves to solve hard problems. He is an infrastructure engineer at Plaid, a financial data network, where he works at solving scaling issues around deploying software, and keeping the infrastructure running. He specifically enjoys focusing on CICD pipelines, metrics and monitoring, and developer optimization.

In his spare time, Mark rehabilitates under-socialized kittens, renovates his heritage house, and makes Jeff Bezos cry by reducing AWS spend.

 

Optimizing cloud costs: Whose job is it anyway?

Who really owns cloud costs? In many organizations, the answer still isn’t clear.

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Cost savings don’t have to impact code quality

Ahead of his talk at LeadDev West Coast in October, Plaid’s Mark Robinson discusses cloud costs and how they could be the ticket to both dollar value and improved code quality.

How much is that API call in the window?

Mark Robinson talks about how in recent years, cloud computing has transformed the way businesses store, manage, and analyze their data.

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