Mark Watkins
Founder at The Hawaii Project
Kailua, Hawaii, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Watkins is a founder and product-focused startup executive with 11+ years leading consumer and enterprise products that have reached millions of users and earned top App Store rankings and national press. He created Bookship and The Hawaii Project, combining social reading with a recommendation engine that surfaces books users wouldn’t find on their own and donates 10% of revenue to literacy causes. His background spans search, recommendations, big data, local search and maps from leadership roles at Endeca, Goby (acquired by Telenav) and Telenav, where he modernized search and scaled consumer navigation products. He excels at building teams and organizations that learn and adapt, and has deep experience raising funding, PR and acquisitions. Based in Kailua, Hawaii, he mentors startups through Techstars, Blue Startups and local innovation programs, and runs literary community projects like Books & Spirits. An avid reader and music tweeter, he blends technical depth in search systems with a strong passion for information-rich consumer experiences.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahB.A., Mathematics, B.A., Mathematics at William & Mary
Github Skills (174)
phonegap10
jitsi10
epub10
facebook-sdk10
web-application10
video-conferencing10
test-framework10
cordova-android10
cordova-plugin10
e2e10
javascript10
debian10
ionic10
cordova-cli10
testcafe10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
viking2917/Hello-World
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:83 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
viking2917/cordova-plugin-jitsi
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Cordova plugin for jitsi meet react native sdk
Contributions:16 pushes, 2 tags in 1 year 11 months
reactcordovareact-nativejitsiandroid
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