Chris Mark
Senior Manager, Backend Engineering at Peak Design
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Mark is a Senior Manager of Backend Engineering with a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling Rails-backed systems and AWS infrastructure for high-growth e-commerce. He leads multi-disciplinary teams at Peak Design—overseeing builds/backend, systems, and data—with a focus on scalable APIs, operational reliability, and hiring and mentoring remote engineers. A former Division I nationally ranked tennis player, he brings competitive grit and disciplined coaching to engineering leadership and process improvements. Past roles include being the first full-time engineer at Peak Design where he drove a platform migration, automated infrastructure and integrations that boosted efficiency and supported multi-million-dollar revenue channels. Chris combines practical full-stack skills (Ruby/Rails, NuxtJS, MySQL/Postgres, AWS) with strong product and project management experience to turn business needs into production systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Political Science; Religion, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Political Science; Religion at Davidson CollegeFull-Stack Engineer, Full-Stack Engineer at Dev Bootcamp
Vietnamese
Github Skills (11)
hotel-booking7
polaris6
shopify5
spree5
rails5
ruby4
api3
quickbooks3
quickbooks-online3
faraday2
json2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
chrismarkpd/wedding_website
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 15 days
peakdesignsf/ns_dev_assess
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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