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Mark Kerzner

Co-Founder

About Mark Kerzner

Mark Kerzner is a hands-on software architect, AI practitioner, and educator who helps teams understand, evaluate, and apply fast-moving technologies in the real world. He teaches and works across AI, machine learning, security, big data, blockchain, cloud, and scalable enterprise systems.

Mark combines deep technical experience with an unusual breadth of learning: he has studied around 10 languages and is known for quickly mastering new tools, frameworks, and ideas. This makes him especially effective in today’s AI landscape, where success depends not only on past expertise, but on the ability to continuously learn, adapt, and build strong human-AI partnerships.

He has worked across High-tech, Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Legal, and Fintech. His classes are highly hands-on, grounded in industry practice, and focused on practical results teams can apply immediately.

Mark is certified in Google Cloud, AWS, and Hadoop, and is the author and maintainer of FreeEed, an open-source e-discovery platform for lawyers and researchers focused on search and massive scalability.

Expertise / Highlights

  • AI practitioner, architect, and educator
  • Hands-on teacher of secure, practical AI adoption
  • 20+ years in enterprise software and scalable systems
  • Certified in GCP, AWS, and Hadoop
  • Author and maintainer of FreeEed
  • Spark, Hadoop, NoSQL, and machine learning trainer
  • Student of 10 languages and continuous-learning advocate