Mark Bao
Co-founder And CTO at Goody
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Bao is a product-focused CTO and serial founder with nine years of experience building consumer and enterprise systems that scale to tens of millions of users. As Co-founder and CTO of Goody he leads product and engineering to make gifting as simple as a text, shipping backend, web, and mobile experiences plus a developer API and custom design assets like a bespoke typeface. He combines full‑stack engineering (React, Node, Rails, Go, Python, Postgres) with a background in behavioral science and design to shape interfaces that drive specific user behaviors. Previously he scaled Onswipe’s AWS platform to handle 44M unique visitors, and conducted machine learning research at Columbia’s Blei Lab deploying models over a 1.3M-article corpus. Comfortable switching between hands‑on coding and strategic product work, he has a track record of turning research and psychology insights into delightful, revenue-driving products.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Computer Science (Intelligent Systems), B.A. Computer Science (Intelligent Systems) at Columbia University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
906reputation
58kreached
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6questions
Github Skills (39)
swift6
documentation6
tvos6
codebase6
git6
objective-c6
deploying6
configuration-profile6
cassandra6
appkit6
watchos5
ids5
macos5
networking5
kibana-plugin5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
GoodyIT/scrapy
May 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
GoodyIT/avenue-landing
Dec 2019 - Apr 2021
landing page design
Contributions:1 PR, 26 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
cssjavascript
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