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If you want to make money by writing code in your free time, listen to Mark Carges, Senior VP at eBay. The five things that matter to developers are making money for the software they write, working on technology that's useful to people, making useful technology more accessible, creating technology that adapts to your way of life, rather than having it the other way around, and speeding innovation and time-to-market through open platforms. Mark Carges backs up eBay's commitment in the fulfillment of these developer objectives with data points.
About 8 years ago, eBay realized that there was a huge business in providing an economic opportunity for developers to leverage their API and make money. Today, there are 85,000 developers that code against the eBay developer API and make money; some of them make lots of it. Last year alone, the sellers on eBay sold $60 billion worth of goods worldwide, and developers who provided real value to these sellers made a cut.
As Senior Vice President of Platform and CTO of Marketplaces, Mark Carges is responsible for accelerating the company’s platform innovation and he is also responsible for overseeing the technology architecture, software development and site operations for eBay.com.
Prior to joining eBay in September 2008, Mark was Executive Vice President, Products and General Manager, for the Business Interaction Division at BEA Systems, a provider of enterprise application infrastructure software that was acquired by Oracle in April 2008. During more than a decade at BEA, Mark held a variety of other senior technology leadership roles, including Chief Technology Officer.
Mark began his career at Bell Labs as one of the original architects of Tuxedo, software for constructing highly scalable transaction processing applications. Prior to BEA, he designed and developed early versions of Tuxedo at Bell Labs, Unix System Labs and Novell.
Mark holds a BA in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley and an MS degree in Computer Science from New York University.
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