Mark Paschal
Lead Engineer at Linden Lab
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Paschal is a Lead Engineer in Seattle with 19 years building community-focused web platforms and shipping customer-facing updates at scale. He led Linden Lab’s move to a containerized cloud platform, creating remote-first practices and delivery culture that improved uptime and deploy safety during the pandemic. A pragmatic hands-on manager, he hires and mentors small teams while still contributing backend code—his open-source work includes meaningful enhancements to the well-known Hubot scripts ecosystem. His background spans Django/Python web systems, ecommerce at virtual-world scale, and a long history of designing tooling for repeatable, safe deployments. Known for blending product empathy with operational rigor, he brings both legacy system experience and modern cloud-native practices to complex, user-facing services.
19 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Github Skills (6)
apim10
hubot10
api10
coffeescript10
natural-language-processing7
nlp7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
github/hubot-scripts
Oct 2011 - Nov 2011
DEPRECATED, see https://github.com/github/hubot-scripts/issues/1113 for details - optional scripts for hubot, opt in via hubot-scripts.json
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality of the Hubot scripts. They implemented new features for the 'polite' script, adding short responses and greetings. Furthermore, they added a 'spell' command to the 'wordnik' script. The user also integrated the 'mite' script, which involved the ability to track project time entries.
opt-inopthubothubot-scriptsdetails
markpasc/make-a-face
Jan 2010 - Oct 2012
Contributions:177 commits in 2 years 9 months
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