Mark Barnes
Software Engineer at Code.org
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Barnes is a software engineer and educator with eight years of hands-on engineering and data science experience and more than a decade teaching at university and K–12 levels. He has built production ETL pipelines, cloud-native demos for AI/ML, and led development of an open-source cybersecurity education platform used in research and training. At Code.org and the Arkansas Department of Education he designed and delivered advanced AI/ML and data science training for teachers while also authoring software to make those concepts accessible. His background bridges humanities and computing—MAs in English and an MS in Computer Science—which informs his focus on equity, accessibility, and clear technical communication. Comfortable across Python, Flask, JavaScript frameworks, and cloud platforms, he brings a blend of curriculum design, product-minded engineering, and international public-engagement experience (including participatory Minecraft workshops for UN-Habitat).
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., English, B.A., English at University of South FloridaUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Arkansas at Little Rock
tok pisin, English
Github Skills (10)
studio10
blockly10
coding10
science10
web-ide10
google-cloud9
cybersecurity8
proxy7
python6
llm4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Nokondi/the-void
May 2023 - Dec 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 69 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
Nokondi/mayday
Apr 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:11 PRs, 89 pushes, 21 branches in 3 months
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