Mark Shaw
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Faire
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Shaw is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years of experience shaping resilient, production-grade systems from Old Toronto. Currently at Faire, he brings deep operational expertise in reliability engineering and a pragmatic engineering mindset informed by earlier backend work on notable open-source projects like phpBB, where his contributions improved notification processing and transaction safety. With a foundation in neuroscience and psychology (McMaster and U of T), he combines analytical rigor and human-centered thinking to troubleshoot complex distributed systems and improve team workflows. Known for quietly fixing tricky backend bugs and preventing production errors, he focuses on reliability, observability, and durable engineering practices that scale.
12 years of coding experience
H. Bachelor of Science, Psychology Neuroscience & Behaviour, H. Bachelor of Science, Psychology Neuroscience & Behaviour at McMaster UniversityMasters, Psychology (Collaborative Program in Neuroscience), Masters, Psychology (Collaborative Program in Neuroscience) at University of Toronto
Github Skills (8)
debug10
php10
whiteboard10
bitboard10
phpbb10
database-management9
forum8
sql7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
phpbb/phpbb
Feb 2016 - Sep 2016
phpBB Development: phpBB is a popular open-source bulletin board written in PHP. This repository also contains the history of version 2.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 4 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the phpBB bulletin board's backend functionality. Their commits addressed issues related to extension compilation, notification behavior, and function calls within the message queue system. Furthermore, the user ensured that database transactions are properly managed to prevent errors during notification processing. The user's contributions directly improved the reliability and stability of the phpBB platform.
bulletin-boardbulletinforumphpphpbb
markshawtoronto/Cracking_the_Coding_Interview
Jan 2015 - Jun 2022
My solutions to problem sets from "Cracking the Coding Interview".
Contributions:9 PRs, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 5 months
pythonleetcodecracking-the-coding-interviewproblemcompetitive-programming
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