Mark Kauffman
Retired at NOT ACTIVE NOT WORKING
Chico, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Kauffman is a seasoned software engineer with over 25 years of hands-on experience and a decade of focused work in higher-education integrations and LMS ecosystems. He spent the bulk of his career designing and supporting Blackboard Learn integrations at Anthology, acting as a technical liaison to hundreds of partners and troubleshooting complex third-party integrations across Java, Spring, Docker, AWS, and relational databases. Earlier roles at CSU Chico combined application administration, Ruby on Rails web development, and mentorship of student teams, while a long tenure at Hewlett-Packard established deep systems and platform engineering chops. He pairs formal training—a CS M.S. and a project management certificate from GWU—with a pragmatic bent for API design, developer advocacy, and production troubleshooting. Now retired in Chico, California, he brings rare institutional knowledge of enterprise LMS internals and best practices for extensibility that few engineers outside the education domain possess.
10 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at California State University, ChicoESI Associates Certificate Project Management, ESI Associates Certificate Project Management at The George Washington University School of Business
Github Skills (32)
caliper10
blackboard10
api10
rest-api10
testing9
documentation9
lti8
nodejs8
ruby7
linux7
rest7
homebrew7
python7
macos6
django-rest-framework6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
blackboard/BBDN-UEF-Python
May 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:44 commits, 25 PRs, 19 pushes in 10 months
mark-b-kauffman/LaunchExternalJWKS
Jun 2021 - Feb 2023
Based on the simplest version of the Python UEF Tool by Scott Hurrey - Now Serves the JWKS URL for the Tool
Contributions:1 review, 15 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 8 months
jwkssimplestpythonserves
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