Summary
Mark Bowren is an Enterprise Applications Software Engineer with over 20 years of experience (10+ in enterprise roles) building mission-critical business systems, currently leading custom application and secure web service development at NASA JPL. He specializes in Oracle Java stack including ADF and PL/SQL, and has modernized legacy platforms while designing database schemas, stored procedures, and integration patterns across government and commercial domains. Mark combines hands-on implementation (Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate, JWT on Tomcat) with architectural leadership—configuring GitHub orgs, defining branch rules, and mentoring junior engineers. His background spans financial trading, energy risk systems, and large-scale intranet applications, and he holds an MS in Computer Science from Florida Atlantic University. An understated strength is his consistent focus on standards and documentation that enable long-lived, auditable enterprise systems.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University