Mark Garro
Co-founder & VP Of Engineering & Head Of Engineering For Autos at Octane®
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMark Garro is a seasoned startup technologist and co-founder with 13+ years building and scaling consumer and automotive engineering teams, currently serving as Co-founder & VP of Engineering and Head of Engineering for Autos at Octane in Houston. A Harvard A.B. in Computer Science informs his technical rigor, but his career reflects a doer’s mentality—moving from hands-on full‑stack engineering to recruiting, security, infra, and product leadership across multiple funded ventures. As CTO he grew Octane’s engineering organization to ~20 engineers and helped drive the company through Series B milestones including $1B in loan requests and broad dealer and manufacturer partnerships. He has deep Django and Python experience from earlier consumer and social products, strong systems and C++ simulation roots from NSF-funded research, and a history of shipping single-page web apps and mobile clients. Known for recruiting top talent and carrying heavy operational responsibility, he’s willing to trade personal comfort for ambitious outcomes—a trait that has repeatedly turned early-stage ideas into scalable businesses.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
A.B. Computer Science, A.B. Computer Science at Harvard University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
webscraping9
eclipse6
php6
sqlite6
android6
django-views6
python6
linkedin-api6
django5
api3
graph3
facebook3
celery3
graphql2
web-framework1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
garromark/django-spa
Aug 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:9 commits in 1 month
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