Mark Garrett
Lead Software Developer And Architect at Ambio Health
Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolMark Garrett is a Lead Software Developer and Architect with 12 years of experience modernizing legacy systems and designing cloud-native, scalable architectures from Virginia Beach. He combines hands-on PHP backend expertise with DevSecOps, DBA, and sysadmin skills to lead migrations to AWS, introduce microservices, and implement observability and performance monitoring. Mark has contributed to notable open-source projects like Zend Framework and Monolog—improving validators, internationalized domain handling, and logging/email handlers—demonstrating attention to standards and interoperability. He mentors engineering teams, drives PoCs for technologies like Kafka, GraphQL, and serverless Lambda, and architects CQRS/ES and Kafka-based streaming designs. Known for cleaning up messy codebases and translating business needs into pragmatic technical roadmaps, he equally values developer ergonomics and production reliability. Outside work he identifies as husband, father, and developer—bringing a pragmatic, long-term perspective to engineering trade-offs.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Anthropology, Anthropology at Rice University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (44)
phalcon10
debugging10
debug10
event-handling10
validations10
validators10
user-authentication10
zend-framework10
authentication10
validation10
security10
validating10
php10
newrelic10
psr-310
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Seldaek/monolog
Mar 2014 - May 2016
Sends your logs to files, sockets, inboxes, databases and various web services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 17 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Mark contributed to the Monolog library by implementing features related to content type, character encoding, and MIME-Version headers for email handlers. They added prefixes to context and extra record keys to prevent key collisions with processors. Furthermore, the user refactored the `NewRelicHandler` to account for array-based context and extra parameters and added the option to explode array parameters for easier display in the NewRelic RPM website. The user also corrected spacing and fixed a typo within the code.
loggerphploggingsocketsdatabases
phalcon/vokuro
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
Sample application for Phalcon Framework (Acl, Auth, Security)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on improving the application's structure and maintainability. They introduced Composer support for dependency management, refactored code to adhere to PSR-1 and PSR-2 formatting standards, and made improvements to the database schema. They also worked on authentication features, including user login, session management, and remember-me functionality. These changes suggest a focus on core application logic and best practices.
securityphpphalconphalcon-frameworksample-application
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