Mark Catalano
Co-Founder, CEO at TakeShape
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMark Catalano is a seasoned software entrepreneur and product leader with 11 years of experience building digital products and developer-facing platforms. As Co-Founder and CEO of TakeShape, he leads operations, product strategy, and roadmapping while translating customer needs into user stories and shipping a modern headless CMS offering. Previously he founded Ronik Design, delivering crafted web experiences, and held engineering and research roles at Fast Company, Newsweek, and Fidelity where he combined front-end development with usability research. His background in information science and a Harvard Business School Online credential gives him a blend of technical depth and product-oriented business acumen. Based in Cambridge, MA, he has experience scaling startups through accelerator programs (Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs/Techstars) and a practical knack for turning complex data and UX requirements into clean, usable interfaces. Notably, his career spans both hands-on development and strategic leadership, making him comfortable coding one day and setting company direction the next.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Core: Credential of Readiness, Core: Credential of Readiness at Harvard Business School OnlineBS Information Science, BS Information Science at Northeastern University
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Github Skills (119)
json-schema10
ruby10
form-library10
validation10
json10
rails10
fastest10
json-schema-validator10
ajv10
iframe10
dynamic-forms9
react9
netlify9
typescript9
static-site9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
takeshape/takeshape-samples
Sep 2018 - Oct 2020
Sample Project Templates for TakeShape
Contributions:2 reviews, 52 commits, 30 PRs in 2 years 1 month
templateproject-templatestakeshape
takeshape/takeshape-starter-portfolio-gatsbyjs
Mar 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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