Mark Drake
Found Architect at Self-employed
Lafayette, California, United States
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Top SchoolMark Drake is a hands-on founder and systems architect with 11+ years of professional experience and a decades-deep background in database and integration technologies. He builds multimodal automation stacks that stitch voice, OCR, SMS, and browser automation into resilient Node.js + PostgreSQL deployments, emphasizing debuggability and deterministic behavior from messy real-world inputs. At Oracle he helped define XMLType and native JSON support and co-designed patented parallel XML parsing algorithms—experience he translates into pragmatic API and infrastructure trade-offs for AI-era systems. Comfortable shipping production prototypes and debugging live systems, he favors interfaces that make advanced tech usable for ordinary developers. Based in Lafayette (20 minutes from SF), he’s open to conversations about AI infrastructure, multimodal product design, and API reliability. An operationally-minded thinker, he demonstrates how small-scale automation can mirror enterprise-grade multimodal infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc (UK), Applied Computing, Bachelor of Science - BSc (UK), Applied Computing at The Manchester Metropolitan University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (152)
json-data10
postgresql10
windows10
node-postgres10
docker-desktop10
node-oracledb10
aws-s310
plsql10
javascript10
tds10
linux10
sql10
js10
csv10
database10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
oracle-samples/xml-sample-demo
Jan 2015 - Jul 2016
Oracle Database XMLDB Code samples
Contributions:54 commits, 243 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
schematronxmldboracle-databasexmlsql
markddrake/YADAMU---Yet-Another-DAta-Migration-Utility
Jun 2018 - Dec 2022
A utility for Migrating Data between Oracle, Postgres, MySQL MariaDB, Snowflake. Stage Data from supported database to Amazon S3 and Azure Blob Storage in JSON and CSV Formats
Contributions:21 releases, 232 commits, 7 PRs in 4 years 6 months
csvdatabase-migrationsstoragemongodbmigration-tool
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