Mark Essel
Founder at Tek Horizons
Town of Brookhaven, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMark Essel is a seasoned founder and backend systems engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable, production-grade APIs and video-processing architectures for startups and media platforms. As Founder of Tek Horizons and a fractional CTO/tech cofounder, he combines hands-on backend development with technical leadership to deliver custom systems that prioritize reliability and efficient cloud utilization. His background spans live video streaming, ffmpeg-driven encoding pipelines, ML-driven personalization, and low-level performance work dating back to C++ simulations for sensor systems. Comfortable moving between product strategy and deep engineering, he has repeatedly shipped infrastructure that transforms research-grade algorithms into robust services. Based in Brookhaven, NY, he pairs an MSEE and physics grounding with an entrepreneur’s instinct for operationalizing complex technical requirements.
15 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
MSEE Electrical Engineering, MSEE Electrical Engineering at Stony Brook University
Stackoverflow
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78answers
10questions
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top-5%
Github Skills (200)
datasets10
nima10
implicit10
cpp10
matrix-factorization10
php10
recommendation-system10
osrm10
priority-queue10
recommender-system10
kue10
map-matching10
redisearch10
machine-learning10
collaborative-filtering10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
victusfate/wsjson
Jan 2017 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 59 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years
lightsendingreconnectionjson-objectsjson
victusfate/resume
Aug 2010 - Jul 2022
Contributions:77 commits, 33 pushes in 12 years
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