Summary
Mark Pundmann is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building scalable systems at Google, AWS, and now Capital One, blending deep systems expertise with cloud-native architectures. He is fluent in Python and C++ (with strong Java and C skills) and has a proven track record optimizing data pipelines and databases—cutting processing times dramatically and tuning Spanner for routing services. At Google he delivered customer-facing features for Maps, established production SLI/SLO practices, and enabled hot-swappable RPCs, showing both product focus and platform-level thinking. His personal projects reveal a creative, code-first approach to problem solving—he built a code-driven digital audio workstation for reusable, programmatic composition and experiments with local LLMs on consumer GPUs. Based in Chicago, he combines hands-on engineering, on-call and hiring experience, and a knack for turning complex requirements into pragmatic, reusable designs.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Purdue University