Mark Samson
Senior Software Engineer at Zarla AI
Pasay, Philippines
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Samson is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building front-end–flavored web applications and reliable back-end systems from the Philippines. He blends UI-first craftsmanship—evident in open-source contributions to projects like Flatdoc—with solid backend integrations in Python and process management tooling (authomatic, circus). Mark has led engineering and product tool teams at Thinking Machines and shipped frontend-focused work at Toggl Track, and now applies that cross-stack perspective at Zarla AI and Betterteam. Unusually for a seasoned engineer, he began in civil engineering, bringing a pragmatic, systems-thinking approach to software architecture and developer tooling.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Civil Engineering, BS Civil Engineering at University of the Philippines
Filipino, English
Github Skills (30)
authorizations10
javascript10
docker10
zeromq10
werkzeug10
python10
back-end-development10
testing10
authentication10
user-authentication10
dockers10
flask-ask10
front-end-development10
virtualenv10
authorization10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
rstacruz/flatdoc
May 2013 - Apr 2015
Build sites fast from Markdown
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and integrating third-party services within the Flatdoc project. They added a "Hacker News" button to the site and subsequently moved it to the left sidebar for improved visibility. The user also updated the project to support private GitHub repositories and made adjustments to the bitbucket integration, indicating work on expanding the documentation source fetching capabilities. Furthermore, they corrected a filepath issue in the Github fetcher function, ensuring its proper functionality.
sitesgitbookmarkdownstatic-site-generator
authomatic/authomatic
May 2013 - May 2013
Simple yet powerful authorization / authentication client library for Python web applications.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the integration of a Flask framework plugin within the authomatic library. They adapted the adapter classes to work with Werkzeug and Flask, enabling better support for the web framework. The user refactored the code, splitting the Flask adapter and introduced a Flask plugin, further improving modularity and ease of use. They also updated the plugin's constructor to utilize the authomatic setup function.
web-applicationspythonauthorizationpython-webclient-library
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