Mark McBride

About Mark

A quick introduction to me, Mark McBride.

Professionally

I work in CAR-T cell therapy in Seattle and London. I lead teams that integrate technology solutions in a very new segment of personalized healthcare.

I graduated from West Point with a degree in computer science and spent several years as an Army officer in the Signal Corps. After the military I shifted my career toward biotechnology and have worked at Genentech, Roche, Juno, Celgene, Bristol Myers Squibb, and now Autolus.

If you’re looking for more professional information, see my CV. And if anything I’ve accomplished in my career might inform your own, please don’t hesitate to ping me.

Personally

Hotdogs being parachuted into T-Mobile park during the 7th inning stretch.
Life goal: catch a “hotdog from heaven” parachuting into T-Mobile Park.

You will often find me geeking out in my garage homelab. I have a perpetual obsession with building machines that strike a nice balance of features and performance with cost, size, noise, and power consumption. I love working in FreeBSD and macOS to get all sorts of things done.

I enjoy sports in general. You can often find me cheering on the Mariners and Seahawks.

I like a broad range of music both in terms of decade and genre. If I had to pick an all time favorite, it’d have to be Nine Inch Nails.

Cultural Influences

I’ve spent considerable time in my life in Texas, New York, Colorado, California, Washington (state, not D.C.), Switzerland, and England. I think I’ve picked up a bit of each along the way. I can even speak enough German to convince a non-German speaker that I speak German. (Aber verlang bloß nicht von mir, mit deutschen Muttersprachlern zu reden!)

A Few Random Facts

Contact Me

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