Summary
Mark Florida is a creative generalist and full-stack engineer with 13 years of experience building performant, user-focused web interfaces and end-to-end architectures. He pairs pragmatic front-end craftsmanship—TypeScript, React, SolidJS, Tailwind—with backend and deployment experience across Node/Deno/Bun, PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, Docker, and Cloudflare platform services. Mark has led front-end modernization efforts at enterprise firms like Comcast and Charter, mentored teams, and improved developer experience through tooling and standards. As a contributor to GoogleForCreators/web-stories-wp he shipped UI refinements and accessibility-minded editor improvements, reflecting a practiced attention to UX detail. Now freelancing and leading creative engineering at Joe Bishop Creative, he blends visual media training with engineering rigor and a practical openness to the right tool for the job. Mark is especially effective translating design intent into production-ready, maintainable interfaces while coaching teams toward modern, scalable patterns.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Film/Video and Photographic Arts, Film/Video and Photographic Arts at St. Louis Community College