Mark Powell
Principal IOS Application Engineer
Pasadena, California, United States
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Top SchoolMark Powell is a Principal iOS Application Engineer based in Pasadena with over two decades of front-end and systems engineering experience and 12 years focused on mobile and mission-critical applications. He led enterprise mobile development at JPL and now builds iOS products at Yahoo, bringing a rare combination of spacecraft operations insight and modern mobile UX and 3D graphics expertise. His work includes leading the Mars Images app, a production Open Source client that streams rover imagery with OpenGL-powered mosaicking, and designing end-to-end assembly workflow and cloud-based science tools used across NASA missions. He introduced Scrum to NASA rover operations software, pioneered cloud and container-based science classrooms, and has led teams delivering tools that directly support rover commanding and imaging. A PhD-trained computer scientist, Mark blends deep research grounding with hands-on engineering—he still enjoys starship modeling and britcoms when not mentoring teams or coding Swift and visionOS.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of South FloridaMaster of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at University of South Florida, Tampa
Github Skills (143)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
OpsLabJPL/MarsImagesIOS
Jan 2014 - Feb 2020
Mars image browsing app for iOS to view the latest from NASA's robotic surface missions to the red planet.
Contributions:146 commits, 32 PRs, 170 pushes in 6 years 1 month
planetmissionsmarsbrowsingsurface
OpsLabJPL/MarsImagesAndroid
Feb 2014 - Oct 2018
Mars image browsing app for Android to view the latest from NASA's robotic surface missions to the red planet.
Contributions:88 commits, 4 PRs, 62 pushes in 4 years 9 months
planetmissionsmarsandroidbrowsing
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