Mark Beasley
Senior Full-Stack Engineer at Discogs
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Beasley is a Senior Full-Stack Engineer with 16 years of experience building resilient web applications and leading technical teams across cultural institutions and media companies. He recently joined Discogs after nearly a decade as Lead Developer at Rhizome, where he architected web-archiving features—most notably session indexing and advanced collection/search data structures—for the Conifer project. Comfortable across front-end and back-end concerns, he has guided product-facing engineering at Pitchfork, artistsspace.org, and boutique studios while also teaching design students at Parsons. Mark pairs an MFA-backed creative perspective with pragmatic engineering, enabling him to translate archival and editorial needs into robust, user-focused systems. Colleagues know him for shipping thoughtful tooling around content playback and MIME handling—work that sits at the intersection of preservation, UX, and scalable backend design.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA at School of the Art Institute of ChicagoMaster of Fine Arts - MFA, Master of Fine Arts - MFA at University of Chicago
Github Skills (14)
webar10
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fullstack-development10
archiving10
python10
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archives10
api-design10
react10
restful-api10
webarchive10
relational-databases9
javascript9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Rhizome-Conifer/conifer
Aug 2016 - Sep 2022
Collect and revisit web pages.
Role in this project:
Back-end and Full-stack Developer
Back-end and Full-stack DeveloperContributions:691 commits, 161 PRs, 883 pushes in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Mark's commits primarily focus on the development and maintenance of the `conifer` web archiving project. Their contributions include significant work on collection routing, the implementation of new functionalities such as support for handling different mime types, and the creation of a new data structure to improve search functionality. They also introduced features for the control of user account functionality, demonstrating an understanding of both front-end and back-end aspects of the project. Additionally, they are responsible for the creation of the complete session indexing flow that allows for content playback.
webrecordercollectpythonpywbweb-archiving
oldweb-today/shepherd-client
Oct 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:22 commits, 3 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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