Mark Farnum
Senior Software Engineer at Space Telescope Science Institute
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Farnum is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with six years of hands-on experience building scalable, cloud-native systems and shipping full-stack products. He’s skilled in Kubernetes on AWS, Terraform-driven infrastructure, Python + Airflow data pipelines, and React frontends, and has repeatedly led migrations that improved scalability and cut worst-case response times by an order of magnitude. Mark pairs deep systems work—containerization, CI/CD, and microservice boundaries—with product-focused improvements like modular frontend rewrites and engagement integrations that measurably boosted metrics. He’s moved teams from monoliths and Heroku to resilient AWS stacks, implemented zero-downtime deployments, and has management experience guiding engineers toward sustainable delivery. Unusually for an engineer with strong cloud chops, his background in professional audio and recording informs a pragmatic attention to instrumentation, performance tuning, and user-facing polish.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Music, Sound Recording Technology, Bachelor of Music, Sound Recording Technology at Ithaca College
Github Skills (92)
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modular9
javascript9
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toolbox9
converter9
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typescript9
django8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
farkmarnum/thaas
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Tom Hanks As A Service
Contributions:17 reviews, 4 commits, 6 PRs in 25 days
apitomas-a-servicesaaskubernetes
farkmarnum/transit_data_access
Aug 2019 - Jul 2024
Gives users access to all realtime transit data... without a large data footprint!
Contributions:7 PRs, 71 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years
realtimelarge-datafootprinttransit-datatransit
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