Mark Alexander
Product Manager at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Alexander is a product leader with 17 years of experience and over a decade specializing in building high-growth B2C web and mobile experiences, currently shaping product at Google. He has repeatedly scaled product organizations—from founding a digital agency to leading mobile and new-ventures teams at Sephora and Rue La La, and turning around Wine Access as VP of Product & Marketing. Known for shipping quickly and driving measurable business outcomes, he established mission-driven squads that delivered weekly and launched a revenue channel generating 20% of monthly sales. A former Silicon Valley programmer and long-time open-source contributor (notably improving the sup email client’s core parsing and search), he blends hands-on technical chops with MBA-trained strategic leadership. Based in San Francisco and an amateur classical pianist, he brings an unusually broad mix of engineering depth, creative product instincts, and people-building experience.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Asian Studies/Civilization, Bachelor of Arts, Asian Studies/Civilization at The University of British ColumbiaMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Leadership and Entrepreneurship, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Leadership and Entrepreneurship at INSEAD
Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
e-mail10
debug10
sendmail10
send-email10
ruby10
tui9
testing8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sup-heliotrope/sup
Mar 2009 - May 2013
A curses threads-with-tags style email client (mailing list: supmua@googlegroups.com)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Mark contributed to the `sup` email client project by addressing several bugs and implementing improvements. Their work focused on enhancing the parsing of email headers, specifically handling blank lines and nil charset issues. Additionally, the user fixed an account selector bug and improved the search functionality when using Ruby 1.9. These changes suggest a focus on improving core functionality and compatibility within the email client's underlying logic.
mailing-listemailmailingrubyemail-client
bloovis/marc
Nov 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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