Márk Módly, the founder and CEO of PEPPERMARKS, has been fascinated by technology since childhood. As the eldest child in a family of six, he had to learn early how to achieve real results in a competitive environment. His background in sports especially in competitive swimming and water polo, contributed to his early development of perseverance and a commitment towards continuous improvement.
After learning to read, he began exploring the deeper layers of technology. At the age of eight receiving his first computer, he immediately immersed himself in the world of computers and the internet. By the age of thirteen, he was working in his spare time alongside school and quickly realized that the key to success depends on acquiring "special" knowledge.
By fourteen, he was already building websites and custom solutions. One challenging project required processing – at the time unusually large amount of data - about 1 GB of raw sensor log at fifteen, he bought his first laptop, which was a rare import device in Hungary at the time.

Later, he provided hosting services from the United States, offering solutions to companies in Germany and Hungary. During his years at the university, he continued to work in IT on various projects, including the development of payment systems for festivals and designing NFC card-based access control systems. He also contributed to the development of the multi-use Budapest Card and wrote and maintained operating systems for touch-screen information terminals, which were used around Lake Balaton and in Northern Hungary.

In 2014, he launched his first legal entity in Hungary. Since then, he has worked with numerous multinational enterprises, including Deutsche Wertpapier Bank, Portigon, MVM, the Hungarian State Treasury, KDB, Vodafone, IVU, Oracle, the Ministry of Agriculture, and MFB. Additionally, he has conducts substantial amount of training and consulting for his partners.

Márk earned both of his BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Engineering from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. His qualifications include the unique Oracle Certified Master Java Enterprise Architect and Java Certified Developer and he also possesses the “Golden wheat ear farmer” certification to better understand agricultural projects and terminology.
His development knowledge includes Assembly, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Bash, C, C#, HTML, CSS, TypeScript, SQL, and PL/SQL. He is also familiar with Ruby, Cobol, and Informix 4GL and he has trained over 1,300 university students and hundreds of workshop participants and led numerous complex IT projects in the past.

As a speaker, he has presented and led workshops at several conferences, including BSides, Hacktivity, Hétpecsét, and HWSW meetups. Since 2019, he has been a lecturer on cyber security and enterprise architecture design at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE).

Besides being critical on the quality of his colleagues, Márk is super critical of his own work as well. As he believed in his childhood that acquiring knowledge was the clear path to success, so is he dedicating significant time and energy to continuously develop and educate himself and his team while closely collaborating with his partners and overseeing the professional operations of his company.