Kyle Marek-spartz
Human at Marek-Spartz Consulting
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Marek-spartz is a seasoned technology leader and resilience engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable, scalable systems and coaching engineering teams. Based in Saint Paul, he has led SRE and developer experience organizations at Shipt and AWS, where he transformed on-call practices, scaled chaos testing, and drove data-driven readiness that materially reduced noise and improved incident outcomes. He combines hands-on software craftsmanship—contributing to the Wren programming language with list/map/where features and bitwise fixes—with strategic program-building, mentoring, and cross-functional initiative leadership. As an entrepreneur he runs a consulting practice focused on career development for tech leaders and experiments with small-batch manufacturing that ties back to pragmatic runbooks and incident playbooks. He holds a BA in Linguistics and an MBA in Leadership and Change Management, an unusual combination that informs his human-centered approach to technical reliability and organizational change.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Leadership and Change Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Leadership and Change Management at Hamline UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Linguistics at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (12)
lang10
bytecode10
wren10
interpreter9
c117
c177
algorithms6
algorithm6
data-structures6
data-structure6
fibers5
fiber5
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
wren-lang/wren
Jan 2014 - Feb 2014
The Wren Programming Language. Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 14 PRs, 102 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to the Wren programming language, focusing on enhancing core language features. They implemented list concatenation and a `map` method, adding new functionality to the core language. The user also added a `where` method for list filtering and made improvements to bitwise operator functionality. They also fixed a bug related to handling null values during iteration.
scriptingclass-basedvirtual-machinescripting-languagebytecode
HaskellMN/haskell-mn-presentations
Sep 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 5 months
haskellarchive
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