Mark French
Senior Manager - Engineering, Finance at SeatGeek
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark French is a seasoned technology leader and software engineer with 14 years of experience building and scaling backend systems, currently serving as Senior Manager of Engineering, Finance at SeatGeek. He specializes in translating complex business domains into elegant models around business logic, ORM, authentication, security, and scalable architectures while keeping pragmatic, day-to-day tradeoffs aligned with long-term goals. A builder and former founder (Armor Payments) and CTO, he combines hands-on implementation experience with product-facing architecture and operational ownership across payments and fintech contexts. Mark excels at managing growing system complexity and communicating the big-picture rationale so teams make pragmatic decisions that fit broader strategy. Based in Durham, NC, he has a track record of leading engineering groups through acquisitions and product maturity, often wearing DBA, sysadmin, and architect hats when needed. Colleagues value his ability to make abstract systems feel real and useful by focusing on people, processes, and measurable outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Grinnell College
Github Skills (50)
jquery10
tel10
intl-tel-input10
intl10
testing9
javascript9
unit-testing9
codeception9
phpunit9
acceptance-testing9
bdd9
sdk9
api9
integration-testing9
php8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Armor-Payments/armor_payments_ruby
Sep 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 10 months
apipaymentsruby-gemrubygem
mrmarkfrench/country-select-js
Oct 2014 - Aug 2022
A quick jQuery-based country picker based on https://github.com/Bluefieldscom/intl-tel-input.git
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 65 commits in 7 years 11 months
jqueryjavascriptintlintl-tel-inputtel
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