Mark Baran
Vice President, Technology at AvidXchange, Inc.
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Baran is a veteran technology leader and data scientist with 14 years building and scaling fintech platforms, currently serving as Vice President of Technology at AvidXchange. He has driven engineering and ML initiatives from founding-engineer and CTO roles to enterprise leadership, architecting AI-powered supply chain finance and AP automation systems that have processed billions in volume. Mark founded his company Bebop Media and later built FastPay’s analytics, risk decisioning, and invoice digitization capabilities, helping steer a successful merger into AvidXchange. Equally comfortable coding or setting strategy, he blends hands-on system design with product-minded ML deployments that automate underwriting and operational workflows. Based in Los Angeles and trained in social studies at Harvard, he brings an uncommon mix of business-first thinking and technical rigor to fintech problems.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Beverly Hills High SchoolBachelor of Arts Social Studies, Bachelor of Arts Social Studies at Harvard University
English, French, Japanese
Stackoverflow
19reputation
347reached
1answer
3questions
Github Skills (59)
console9
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lua9
cmd9
neovim9
nvim8
windows-terminal8
apache-poi8
vim8
htmlwidgets8
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mebaran/dotfiles
Jun 2019 - Nov 2024
Contributions:185 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 5 months
mebaran/mynixhome
Oct 2024 - Jul 2026
Nix style config management for development
Contributions:4 PRs, 134 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 8 months
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