Mark Schaake
Principal Owner at Schaake Solutions, LLC
Yakima, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Schaake is a principal owner and founder with 14+ years building production software that simplifies complex industries, from equipment finance to AI-driven agribusiness. He founded and operated Mark Capital Finance and the FLEX Equipment Finance SaaS platform, which he still maintains, and now runs Schaake Solutions to help startups ship AI-first products rapidly using AI agents as core infrastructure. An early engineer at the Allen Institute for AI, he has experience building data pipelines and research-grade systems that bridge academic AI and practical products. He independently designed and delivered MVPs, automated AWS IaC and CI/CD pipelines, and scaled platforms as a one-person technical lead and founding CTO. Based in Yakima, WA, he pairs business-facing domain expertise in finance and agribusiness with hands-on engineering rigor and a habit of documenting what actually works in production.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA International Studies, BA International Studies at University of WashingtonMSE Master of Software Engineering, MSE Master of Software Engineering at Seattle UniversityMBA Accounting Management, MBA Accounting Management at San Diego State University
Github Skills (69)
rest-services10
dao10
reactivemongo10
spray10
avro9
rest9
sbt-plugin9
html9
ensime9
css9
scalajs9
scala-macros9
coproduct9
dom9
code-review8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
markschaake/emacs-conf
Apr 2015 - Nov 2020
Contributions:25 pushes in 5 years 8 months
eforge-build/eforge
Mar 2026 - Jul 2026
Open source agentic build system - transforms specifications into verified source code with blind adversarial review
Contributions:10 releases, 31 PRs, 255 pushes in 3 months
agenticbuild-systemagent-sdkai-agentsclaude-code
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