Mark Fussell is the CEO and co-founder of Diagrid. With over 30 years of experience, Mark has a track record of building innovative computing platforms, managing large-scale cloud services, cultivating open source communities, and implementing successful go-to-market business strategies. During his 21years at Microsoft, he played a pivotal role in developing the distributed systems platform for Azure's hyperscale services, including Azure SQL, CosmosDB, Intune, Dynamics 365, Teams and many others. In 2019, Mark co-created the Distributed Applications Runtime project, known as Dapr (dapr.io), which has become one of the fastest-growing open source projects centered around application development as part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.