Mark Bastian
Vice President Of Engineering at FireNote
Star, Idaho, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Bastian is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years in software and a multidisciplinary background spanning computer science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, and machine learning. Currently VP of Engineering at FireNote, he progressed through senior and principal engineering roles where he led full-stack feature delivery, technical mentorship, and organizational initiatives to scale teams and practices. He has deep backend expertise—particularly in Clojure—demonstrated by substantive contributions to the popular open-source analytics project Metabase, improving API security, performance, and middleware. Prior roles at Sandia and Clearwater show a knack for applying advanced engineering and modeling across domains from critical infrastructure to fintech, and for introducing new technologies and growing internal Clojure communities. Based in Star, Idaho, he combines hands-on coding with strategic leadership and a track record of turning complex, multidisciplinary problems into production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering at Boise State UniversityMaster of Science (MS) Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Mechanical Engineering at Washington State UniversityCentennial High School
English
Github Skills (11)
clojure10
api10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
clojure-cli10
regular-expression9
data-analysis8
business-intelligence8
analytics7
database7
databases7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
metabase/metabase
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
The simplest, fastest way to get business intelligence and analytics to everyone in your company :yum:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:225 reviews, 17 commits, 252 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Mark focused on back-end development, as demonstrated by their commits fixing documentation, improving regular expressions, adding new endpoints, and modifying code related to middleware and data analysis. Their work involved Clojure, as evidenced by the code changes and the project's use of Clojure as indicated by the repository topics. Furthermore, the commits included code changes for improving API key security and performance optimization.
datasimplestfastestbusiness-analyticsbusiness-intelligence
markbastian/adventofcode
Nov 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:105 commits, 122 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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