Mark Grand
Software Engineer at Spotify
Cumming, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolMark Grand is a seasoned polyglot software engineer with 9 years of recent experience and a long track record of architecting scalable, secure systems across cloud-native platforms and enterprise environments. Currently at Spotify and previously a Principal Software Engineer at KUBRA, he has led migrations to API-first architectures, modernized SaaS authentication flows, and built centralized microservices and credential services using technologies from Java and Node.js to Kubernetes and AWS. He blends hands-on implementation with architecture and DevOps—designing observability, feature-flag PoCs, and resilient event-driven systems—while mentoring engineers and aligning cross-functional teams. His background includes leadership roles in blockchain and platform architecture (Topl, JFrog, Cognizant) and practical wins like a pluggable tracing/metrics library and custom autoscaling metrics for The Home Depot. Based in Cumming, Georgia, he is comfortable evaluating emerging tools (Auth0, Cognito, OpenTelemetry) and applying pragmatic proofs-of-concept to de-risk technology choices. A pragmatic problem-solver, he often surfaces non-obvious operational improvements (e.g., domain-specific metrics and dead-letter handling) that materially improve reliability and scalability.
9 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Syracuse UniversityAcademic, Academic at The Bronx High School of Science
German, English, Russian
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Github Skills (6)
rest-api8
rest8
swagger7
swagger-editor6
swagger-ui6
open-source5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
mgrand/crypto-shuffle
Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:32 commits in 3 months
swagger-api/swagger-editor
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Swagger Editor
Contributions:2 issues in 1 day
openapi-specificationopenapi31restrest-apiopenapi3
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