Mark Grothe
Staff Engineer at Avara
Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Grothe is a Staff Engineer based in Iowa with eight years of software engineering experience, currently advancing platform and front-end work at Avara. He has progressed through senior and staff roles, consistently shipping user-facing features and UX fixes—most recently contributing front-end updates and market search functionality to the well-known Aave decentralized finance interface. His background blends practical engineering physics and control systems training with hands-on product delivery across companies like Cartegraph and iOLAP, giving him a strong systems-thinking approach to front-end problems. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex requirements into polished UI components and reliable releases. He brings an eye for detail from early QA and project engineering roles, which shows up in careful UX and testnet improvements. Outside of work he pairs open-source contributions with a methodical academic grounding, enabling both rapid iteration and robust design.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Engineering Control Systems, Master of Science in Engineering Control Systems at University of Wisconsin-PlattevilleEngineering, Engineering at University of Newcastle
Github Skills (10)
uid10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types10
nextjs9
css8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aave/interface
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
An open source interface for the decentralized liquidity protocol Aave
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:529 reviews, 100 commits, 495 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on updating the Aave interface's front-end components. Their commits involved modifying UI elements, including updating links, removing and adding UI components, and addressing issues related to the display of information. The user also implemented fixes for testnet UX updates, such as adjusting styles and functionalities within the interface. The user also worked on adding market search capabilities.
ethereum-contractethereumblockchaindecentralizeddapps-development
scaffold-eth/scaffold-eth-typescript-challenges
Nov 2021 - May 2022
All of our typescript challenges ported over from the javascript world
Contributions:9 reviews, 115 commits, 32 PRs in 5 months
javascripttypescript
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