Hey, I'm Mark!
In 2018, I left the Active Duty Army as a Military Policeman to go full-time on my personal goals. Since then, I've pursued a degree in tech, volunteered at nonprofit organizations, freelanced, and worked on countless side projects and courses for fun. I also had the pleasure of being a founding product engineer at Wren Writing.
Work Experience
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Wren Writing
Founding Product Engineer
- • Built ARC delivery on production Ruby on Rails app, integrating AWS SES for custom author-sent emails and S3 for storage, with per-reader watermarking that traces any leaked copy, giving indie authors a controlled channel to share early book for reviews on book launch.
- • Resolved client-side performance issues by isolating JS/CSS bundles across three domains, marketing, core app, and Wren Reading, so users load domain relevant assets instead of all three.
- • Established AI-first workflows to ship features addressing underserved market needs faster.
- • Rapidly ramped up in Go to build and deploy serverless AWS Lambdas with DynamoDB, adding features to the initial MVP that won grant funding at Southern Minnesota's startup accelerators in 2025.
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Kenect
Senior Software Engineer
- • Modernized a legacy web platform from an acquired product (Auto Labs), migrating from a Webpack based S.P.A. with a multi-step git-flow release process to a containerized Node.js + Express server with a Vite-bundled React/Typescript S.P.A., resulting in org wide developer productivity gains, 37% faster CI pipelines, and test coverage growth from 3% to 64%.
- • Led the development of a configurable workflow automation UI, enabling customers to build event-driven campaign sequences across internal and partner systems, driving 115% ROI per dealership within the first two weeks of onboarding.
- • Founded and Launched the company's first-ever summer engineering internship program in 2025, selecting 3 interns from 200+ applicants through a rigorous technical and business values base evaluation process.
- • Spearheaded the migration of customer facing web applications from React 16 to 19, mitigating security vulnerabilities and ensuring uninterrupted service for over 50K daily active users.
U
U.S. Army
Sergeant - Military Police
- • Served a population of 1,200 soldiers and their family members while stationed overseas when conducting Law Enforcement duties as a Patrol Supervisor often providing quick and efficient responses.
Education
B
Bloom Tech
Full Stack Web Development & Comp. Sci.
Skills
Frontend
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
TypeScript
React.js
Next.js
Redux
Sass
TailwindCSS
Figma
A11y
Hotwire Turbo
Stimulus
Unity
Godot
Backend
Go Lang
Ruby on Rails
Node
Express
Nestjs
Prisma
GraphQL
PostgreSQL
REST APIs
Firebase
AWS
GCP
C#
ASP.NET
EF Core
Java
Spring Boot
Other
Algorithms
Data Structures
OOP
Git
CI/CD
GitHub Actions
Agile/Scrum/XP
Microservices
Docker
Containerization
AI
LLMs
Agentic Coding
Claude Code
Cursor
Prompt Engineering
Let's Work Together
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