Summary
Mark Bahnman is a Lead Engineer with 13 years of experience building adaptable, composable, and maintainable software across startups and product teams. He has scaled community-driven systems and refactored legacy stacks for higher feature velocity, notably rearchitecting a social platform to survive Reddit-driven traffic spikes and optimizing analytics pipelines at Stripe for up to 16x performance gains. As a founder and consultant he builds bleeding-edge tools—everything from WASM streaming-overlay utilities to LLM-validation workflows—and recently productionized an AI-assisted sommelier into a consumer web app. Comfortable across languages and layers (from Arc Lisp and Ruby to Go, Node, and serverless ETLs), he pairs pragmatic engineering with a curiosity for learning in every stack. Based in Vancouver, he blends hands-on delivery with infrastructure and data expertise, and often focuses on lightweight, observable systems that make model and pipeline quality measurable in production.
13 years of coding experience
University College of the Fraser Valley
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Software Systems, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Software Systems at Simon Fraser University