Stories in Motion: Taj Balzotti

By December 12, 2025July 7th, 2026Employee Spotlight, Life at Tideworks
Taj Balzotti

Tideworks “Stories in Motion” continues with a spotlight on someone whose steady influence and thoughtful approach have strengthened how Tideworks delivers for customers.

Some people are naturally drawn to understanding how complex systems work — and Tideworks Principal/Solutions Architect Taj Balzotti is one of them. Fascinated early on by the scale of global trade, he was captivated by how ports and intermodal terminals operate and by the role a Terminal Operating System plays in keeping everything moving.

At Tideworks, Taj channels that curiosity into designing TOS solutions that make terminal operations safer, more efficient, and easier to manage. He partners closely with operations and technical teams to turn complex workflows into intuitive, reliable systems that improve coordination and give teams the real-time visibility they need.

Guided by an early love of programming and a leadership mindset shaped through years as a Scoutmaster, Taj approaches every project with collaboration, thoughtfulness, and a commitment to empowering the people behind terminal operations.

Mark Traynor

Chief Product & Technology Officer

Mark Traynor joined Tideworks in 2026 as Chief Product & Technology Officer, bringing more than two decades of hands-on experience in building and deploying terminal technology and automation systems. In this role Mark will lead the company’s product management and engineering organizations and is responsible for the product roadmap and the modernization of the Tideworks platform.

Before Tideworks, Mark was Chief Technology Officer at Lynxis, whose Nascent gate automation systems deployed in nearly 100 marine and rail terminals across North and South America. For Lynxis, Mark led a globally distributed 70+ person engineering team that built a modern, configuration-driven platform on a single codebase while introducing a visual workflow configuration designed to streamline customer implementations. He also introduced cutting-edge computer vision and agentic AI solutions as well as the re-engineering of the hardware to run on readily available commercial components rather than bespoke systems sourced from specialist manufacturers.

For the 13 years before that, Mark was an independent technology partner to major North American automated marine terminal projects, including Virginia International Terminals and Long Beach Container Terminal. These operators relied on him to help lead their most complex terminal operating system implementations driving efficiency and reliability through their gate, rail, yard and vessel operations.

Mark began his career at Navis in 2004, delivering terminal operating system implementations across North America and Europe.