Mark Davidoff
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Davidoff is a contract software engineer and hands-on engineering leader with 11+ years building resilient, auditable back-end systems and scalable full-stack products from early startups to public companies. Deeply experienced in Python and Django (including notable contributions to the popular django-axes project), he has designed high-throughput data pipelines, payment and attribution systems, IoT access control backends, and robust public APIs and integrations with financial systems. He’s led teams through SOC2/SOX compliance and infrastructure-as-code migrations while remaining a pragmatic coder who ships production-ready services in Go, Scala, React and Celery-backed architectures. Known for turning complex, compliance-sensitive requirements into maintainable systems, he combines product-focused engineering with mentorship and security-driven operational practices. Based in San Jose, he brings a UC Berkeley CS background and a track record of scaling both systems and teams across diverse domains.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleySanta Monica College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
user-authentication10
authentication10
python10
django10
security10
database-migration9
database-migrations9
testing7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jazzband/django-axes
Mar 2018 - Dec 2018
Keep track of failed login attempts in Django-powered sites.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 20 commits, 12 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the backend of the django-axes project, focusing on authentication and security aspects. Their work included refactoring code to utilize newer methods, adding an authentication backend to check for locked-out users, and improving documentation. They also implemented crucial features like lockout messaging and migration fixes. The user also added tests to ensure the project maintains migration integrity.
pythonkeepdjango-frameworkfaileddjango
markddavidoff/pull_request_auto_labeler
Aug 2019 - Mar 2021
Automatically label Github pull requests based on elements of the PR title. Defaults to Jira style ticket code(PROJ-100) in PR title
Contributions:10 releases, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
elementsjirapr-titlegithub-labelpull-requests
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