Mark Tran is an engineering manager with 15 years of experience leading backend and full-stack teams across startups and scale-ups, currently driving engineering at WorkOS from Newport Beach. He progressed from hands-on roles at Cloudkick, CrowdFlower, OpenTable and Jukely to fractional leadership at 10x Management, blending deep coding experience with people and delivery management. Mark maintains active engagement with open-source package ecosystems—contributing recipes and maintenance to the popular el-get Emacs package manager—highlighting attention to developer experience and tooling. Known for turning distributed backend complexity into reliable platforms, he pairs pragmatic engineering judgment with mentorship and process improvements.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Manage the external elisp bits and pieces upon which you depend!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:10 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributes to `el-get` by adding and updating recipes for various Emacs packages. They add recipes, fix typos, and update URLs for existing packages, indicating a focus on managing and curating the available packages within the el-get ecosystem. Their work involves interacting with git repositories and package metadata, demonstrating proficiency in package management and potentially, in the usage of elisp for defining package recipes. The user's efforts help users find and install elisp packages.
Contributions:786 commits, 242 pushes in 11 years 11 months
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