Mark Bainter
Sr Director Of Technical Operations
Riverside, Missouri, United States
Summary
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SeniorMark Bainter is a people-focused technology executive with 14+ years leading site reliability, technical operations, and production engineering at growth-stage and enterprise companies. As Senior Director-level leader he has built and scaled SRE, security, IT, and DB reliability teams, aligning infrastructure strategy with corporate goals to support nearly 4x company growth and industry-leading infra-to-revenue ratios. He combines hands-on technical depth—evident from contributions to core projects like Neovim’s codebase refactors—with executive experience negotiating SaaS and cloud agreements and driving operational maturity. Known for creating values-driven cultures that emphasize accountability, inclusivity, and low-toil engineering, he repeatedly turns siloed orgs into resilient, metrics-driven teams. Based in Riverside, Missouri, he pairs pragmatic change management and M&A integration experience with a long history of pioneering DevOps and automation practices across high-scale email and platform businesses.
14 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (14)
c1710
neovim10
vim10
filesystem10
nvim10
api10
c1110
text-editor10
file-operations10
fileio10
lua9
sql-server6
iis6
asp-net6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
neovim/neovim
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 9 PRs, 72 comments in 29 days
Contributions summary:Mark contributed to refactoring code within the Neovim project, focusing on removing and replacing instances of `char_u` and other data structures, primarily within file path handling and environment variable interactions. They were involved in modifying core functions related to file system interactions, environment variable retrieval, and path manipulation, such as `vim_getenv()`, `vim_version_dir()`, and `FullName_save()`. These changes aimed to improve code clarity and maintainability by adjusting the code's fundamental data types.
usabilityapiluavimvim-plugin
mbainter/ansible-haproxy
Dec 2015 - Feb 2020
Installs and configure haproxy under Ubuntu or SmartOS
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes in 4 years 2 months
nginxsmartosansibledockerhaproxy
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