Mark Stover is a Senior Platform Engineer based in Denver with nine years of experience building reliable infrastructure and platform tooling for organizations including The New York Times, FORM, and GoSpotCheck. Rooted in a GIS and geography background from the University of Colorado and strengthened by back-end training at Turing School, he combines spatial thinking with pragmatic backend engineering to solve complex system problems. Known for creative problem-solving and strong communication, he excels at translating ambiguous requirements into maintainable, scalable platforms. His trajectory from field GIS work and hands-on carpentry to modern platform engineering gives him an unusual practical-and-technical perspective that informs pragmatic design and operational resilience.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Geography, GIS, Geography, GIS at University of Colorado at Boulder
Back-end Engineering, Back-end Engineering at Turing School of Software & Design
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