Mark Rogers
Engineering Manager at Freshpaint
Springfield, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Rogers is an engineering manager with 17+ years building scalable backend platforms, specializing in job processing, cloud infrastructure, Kafka-based data delivery, and PostgreSQL. He excels at turning platform teams into high-performing, product-focused organizations, having built and led multiple cross-functional teams and mentored engineers through promotions. His work has driven measurable business outcomes—most notably an email platform that generated $500K+ in fundraising and delivered over 10.5M messages at >96% deliverability. He has deep hands-on experience from operating Kafka clusters and active/active datacenter migrations to integrating enterprise CRMs like Salesforce and Blackbaud. An active contributor to open-source (notably improving ODS support in the tablib Python library), Mark brings both implementation-level rigor and strategic roadmap discipline. Based in Springfield, IL, he’s passionate about creating environments where teams and the business can scale sustainably.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Westwood College - Denver North
Github Skills (2)
python10
testing7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jazzband/tablib
May 2011 - May 2011
Python Module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML, &c.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on adding and improving OpenDocument Spreadsheet (ODS) support to the tablib library. Their work involved integrating the odfpy library, creating functions for exporting datasets and databooks to ODS format, and implementing styling features, including bold text. The user also made minor adjustments to the core library and test files, demonstrating a good understanding of the project's structure.
yamlcsvxlspythoncsv-reader
f4nt/djtracker
Nov 2009 - Dec 2009
Contributions:128 commits in 1 month
djangopythontrackerissue-tracker
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