Mark Valdez is a Senior Software and Platform Engineer based in Denver with five years of experience building AWS-native, Terraform-driven infrastructure and full-stack web applications. He’s currently driving platform and DevOps efforts at Spectrum after architecting scalable cloud solutions and CI/CD automation for public-sector projects like Hawaii’s Department of Health. Comfortable across Next.js front-ends and infrastructure-as-code, he focuses on delivering developer-efficient automation that shortens release cycles and reduces toil. His background in psychology and intensive training at App Academy give him a user-centered approach to system design and collaboration. Describing himself as a "Human Intelligence Advocate," he balances technical rigor with pragmatic team-first practices that elevate both code quality and developer experience.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Psychology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Psychology at Brigham Young University–Hawaii
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at App Academy
Clone of the Yelp web app, focused on crowd-sourced reviews on popular surf breaks.
Contributions:74 commits, 20 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 months
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