Mark Dawn
Event Coordinator
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Dawn is an event-focused technologist and Bitcoin evangelist with eight years of experience coordinating conferences and grassroots campaigns to promote blockchain adoption across Los Angeles. As founder and president of the Los Angeles Bitcoin Network and current Event Coordinator for the West Coast Bitcoin Summit, he blends community outreach, business integration, and public education to make decentralized tech accessible to everyday users. His background spans corporate business development at IBM and operations roles in logistics and nonprofit IT, giving him rare cross-industry experience in strategy, client engagement, and systems implementation. Mark contributes code to open-source projects—most recently enhancing image preview functionality in the popular ranger file manager by integrating kitty terminal graphics—demonstrating hands-on technical chops beyond event leadership. He holds dual BS degrees in Marketing and Psychology (cum laude) and a master’s focus in Information Systems Management and Security, pairing people-centered communication with technical and security awareness. Known for turning complex tech into practical programs, he thrives at the intersection of community, product, and decentralized innovation.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Information Systems Management and Security, Security and Research Society, Masters, Information Systems Management and Security, Security and Research Society at Keller Graduate School of ManagementMarketing and Psychology, Business, Graduated cum laude with two BS degrees in Marketing and Psychology, Marketing and Psychology, Business, Graduated cum laude with two BS degrees in Marketing and Psychology at Florida State University - College of Business
English, German, French, Danish
Github Skills (8)
file-manager10
previews10
viewer10
python10
image-processing10
console10
curses9
base648
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ranger/ranger
Feb 2018 - Sep 2018
A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 46 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily worked on enhancing the image preview functionality within the ranger file manager. They implemented a new image displayer for the kitty terminal, integrating it with the existing framework and enabling image previews using the kitty graphics protocol. They addressed various bug fixes, improvements, and refactored the code.
file-managervimconsolefile-launcherfile-preview
mark-dawn/stytra
Jun 2018 - Jul 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 1 month
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