Mark Waks
Corporate Treasurer Board Member
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMark Waks is a versatile software engineer and engineering leader with 13+ years of experience building interactive, social, and collaborative online systems, now serving as Corporate Treasurer and Board Member at the Typelevel Foundation while leading engineering at One Pass. A long-time Scala enthusiast, he specializes in cats-effect and ZIO-based backends and has driven Scala adoption and best practices across multiple companies, including Slack, Troops, and Rally Health. He combines hands-on technical work—architecting distributed systems, Kafka pipelines, and low-latency integrations—with product and Agile leadership, often acting as de facto project or product manager. As a founder/CEO of Querki and earlier startups, he focuses on making complex small-data problems approachable for end users, blending technical depth with UX sensitivity. He’s an early adopter and proponent of XP/Scrum who mentors engineers in functional programming and system design. Based in Somerville, MA, he prefers Scala-centric roles and is explicit about declining non-Scala opportunities.
13 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
BACS Computer Science, BACS Computer Science at Brandeis University
Stackoverflow
2,699reputation
80kreached
86answers
9questions
scala
top-5%
Github Skills (147)
extensible10
modular10
jquery10
reactive10
scala-native10
dispatch10
facade10
dsl10
sbt10
java10
scala10
strongly-typed10
tagless-final10
dotty10
scalajs10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jducoeur/playing-cards
Aug 2020 - Feb 2022
Game files for playingcards.io
Contributions:17 commits, 12 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 6 months
playingcards
jducoeur/dockerized-poc
Aug 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 release, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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