Mark Lewandowski is a Senior Software Engineering Manager in San Francisco with 15 years building and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently leading YouTube’s Video Metadata organization. He combines deep systems and data expertise—C++, Python, Spanner, MySQL/Vitess migrations, Hadoop/MapReduce, and NoSQL—to drive multi-year roadmaps, performance optimizations, and cost-saving platform migrations that reduced CPU and memory footprints at massive scale. A hands-on leader who hires, mentors, and defines career paths for teams of 15+, he’s also a Tier 2 oncaller responsible for production excellence across critical services. His background spans analytics-driven product decisions (A/B testing, Pandas, Redshift) and building realtime recommendation and notification systems. An early contributor to open-source tooling around time handling (Delorean) and a founding member of internal schema and core-entity working groups, he blends rigorous academic training (PhD ABD/MS/BS in CS) with practical, production-first engineering.
15 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Florida State University
Contributions:46 commits, 8 PRs, 2 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the improvement and maintenance of the `delorean` library, a Python library focused on time manipulation. Their contributions included fixing bugs, updating documentation, and adding new features like methods related to time zones. The user's work also involved refactoring code related to timezone handling and equality checks within the Delorean objects, indicating a focus on accuracy and usability. Furthermore, they have made improvements to the library's string parsing capabilities.
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