Mark Okafor
Application Engineer
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolMark Okafor is an Application Engineer and PhD candidate in Information Technology based in Nashville with eight years of experience bridging Healthcare IT, education, and data-driven software development. He builds full-stack solutions using MERN/NextJS and NestJS as well as .NET CORE, and designs data layers with MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres and SQLite while applying Python and ML toolkits like scikit-learn and TensorFlow for analytical features. His background spans roles from academic research and lab analytics to leading tech and data functions at Vanderbilt and freelance engineering, giving him a pragmatic scientific approach to problem solving. Comfortable shipping production services at large organizations like Cat Financial and HCA, he brings domain fluency in healthcare and environmental data that informs robust, compliant systems. Notably, his career trajectory reflects a transition from environmental science and engineering into software and data science, enabling him to translate complex real-world measurements into actionable software.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Tennessee State UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE Agricultural Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Agricultural Engineering at University of Nigeria, NsukkaFull Stack Software Development, Full Stack Software Development at Nashville Software School
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Github Skills (2)
python6
powershell1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
okaformark/techpro
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:89 PRs, 48 pushes, 46 branches in 2 years 3 months
okaformark/Expanding-Cards
Mar 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
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