Mark Irish is a software engineer with a decade of experience building and enabling open-source software on enterprise platforms, currently working as Software Engineer II at Microsoft after a multi-role tenure at IBM. He blends rigorous computer science training (BS, 4.0) with a humanities-rooted MA in Anthropology, a background that informs his pragmatic curiosity and attention to context when solving engineering problems. At IBM he progressed from developer to advisory staff, shipping integrations and packaging work for the IBM i ecosystem and maintaining hands-on projects showcased on his personal site. His early career includes long-form internships improving testing and logging at Preventice and field archaeology work that honed his research discipline and documentation skills. Comfortable across tooling, packaging, and platform enablement, he welcomes connections about technical challenges large and small.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 4.0, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 4.0 at Winona State University
University of California San Diego
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Anthropology, Classics, Biblical Languages, 3.98, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Anthropology, Classics, Biblical Languages, 3.98 at Luther College
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