Summary
Mark Stinson is a pragmatic systems engineer with 10+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating large-scale Unix and web infrastructures for banking, telecom, and developer services. As System Engineer II at UMB Bank and former lead at SourceForge/Geeknet and Sprint, he blends deep OS and networking expertise (RedHat, AIX, Solaris, Apache/Nginx, TCP/IP) with hands-on development in Perl, Python, PHP and shell to deliver resilient billing and hosted web platforms. He routinely acts as release engineer, configuration manager and technical lead, creating web-enabled automation for deployments, batch scheduling and monitoring that reduced toil and improved uptime. Known for stepping into high-visibility migrations and post-mortem ownership, he earned multiple awards for crisis readiness and infrastructure separations. Comfortable across databases (MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle) and virtualization stacks, he pairs operational rigor with a developer’s mindset to ship repeatable solutions. Based in Kansas City, he brings an unusual combination of legacy systems knowledge and modern automation to stabilize and evolve critical production services.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of Missouri