Mark Ericksen
Staff Software Engineer at PDQ
Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Ericksen is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of production experience building scalable, secure systems and a deep focus on Elixir, Phoenix, and AI integrations. He combines hands-on engineering—authoring the Elixir LangChain package and contributing deployment docs for Fly.io—with product-focused delivery, currently shaping PDQ Connect to reduce IT operational burden via AI. A founder and community builder, he hosts the Thinking Elixir podcast, organized Utah Elixir meetups, and has a track record of mentoring teams and shipping research and finance applications. Comfortable across backend, DevOps, and developer advocacy, he excels at turning complex requirements into maintainable, iterated products and brings the pragmatic perspective of someone who has taken libraries and services from idea to real-world use.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS, MIS, Computer Science, BS, MIS, Computer Science at University of Nebraska at Omaha
English, Norwegian
Github Skills (10)
fly10
io10
elixir10
documentation10
phoenix-framework10
dockers9
devops9
docker9
clustering8
postgresql8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
superfly/docs
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 43 commits, 32 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the documentation and setup guides for deploying applications on Fly.io, with a focus on Elixir and Phoenix applications. Their work included creating and updating guides for Elixir deployments, specifically covering topics such as database integration, clustering, and setting up release configurations. Furthermore, the user added documentation for Dockerfile-based deployments and provided troubleshooting tips for common deployment issues.
brainlid/wbs_markdown
Sep 2017 - Dec 2019
Generate a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) report from a markdown file. A tool that improves software development estimates.
Contributions:210 commits, 8 PRs, 110 pushes in 2 years 2 months
wbsmarkdown-filereportmarkdownestimates
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