Mark Sargent
Software Engineer at Google
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Sargent is a software engineer with 11 years of professional experience who transitioned from an academic career in philosophy into full‑stack development at Google, where he builds support applications. He combines rigorous analytical thinking from a PhD-level humanities background with practical CS training (MS Computer Science) and hands‑on teaching experience in Java, Android, ML and AI. Mark has a track record of mentoring and guiding student capstone teams and has helped bridge academia and industry through a Google residency focused on inclusion. His unusual path—from philosophy professor to production engineer—gives him a thoughtful, human-centered approach to problem solving and product design.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at California State University, Los AngelesUniversity of California, IrvineMaster of Arts - MA Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, Master of Arts - MA Philosophy of Religion and Ethics at Talbot School Of TheologyBiology General, Biology General at Mt. San Antonio CollegePhD Philosophy, PhD Philosophy at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (43)
javascript9
open-source9
kotlin8
robot8
kotlin-multiplatform8
annotations7
android7
strongly-typed7
graphql6
keras6
workspace6
java6
caching6
catkin6
keras-tensorflow6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
msargentTeachingMaterials/sign_detection
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:6 commits in 1 day
csula/cs4660-fall-2017
Aug 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 57 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 9 months
deep-learningartificialmachine-learningartificial-intelligenceintelligence
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