Eric Marks
Lead Engineer at Target
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Marks is a Lead Engineer with 13 years of experience designing and shipping embedded software and hardware solutions, currently leading engineering efforts at Target's IoT and Connected Products initiatives. He combines low-level firmware and motion-control expertise with high-level scripting, systems integration, and infrastructure virtualization, having built CNC control systems, retail fixtures, and company-wide ERP integrations. Comfortable across the stack from PCB-level design and power distribution to Raspberry Pi-based kiosks and cloud-connected IoT platforms, he excels at translating customer and sales requirements into cost-effective, manufacturable products. Known for pragmatic automation—inventory, time-tracking, and shipping systems he implemented materially improved quoting and operations—he brings a systems-thinking approach that balances product, manufacturing, and operational needs. Based in Minneapolis, he pairs a Computer Engineering degree from the University of Minnesota with a hands-on mindset for prototyping and production.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (133)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Swap-File/portal-gun-4
Jan 2020 - Sep 2022
Portal Gun IV: The Voyage Home
Contributions:169 commits, 5 PRs, 173 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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Swap-File/redbutton
Jun 2016 - Jun 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
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