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 (20)
blackboard10
api10
rest-api10
testing9
lti9
nodejs9
documentation9
python8
rest7
homebrew6
elixir6
ruby6
django6
fuzz-testing2
flask2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
blackboard/blackboard.github.io
Feb 2020 - Dec 2022
This repository is the home for Blackboard developer documentation.
Contributions:2 reviews, 160 commits, 104 PRs in 2 years 10 months
rest-apiapiblackboarddeveloper-documentation
mark-b-kauffman/bbdn-bblogbackb2
Nov 2016 - Feb 2023
Contributions:4 commits, 9 pushes in 6 years 3 months
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