Mark Wells
Independent Software Developer at Penn State
Villanova, Corsica, United States
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Top SchoolMark Wells is a Co-Founder and Lead Engineer bringing 11 years of technical experience and a PhD in Astrophysics to building AI-first developer tools. He applies scientific rigor to software design, specializing in high-performance, maintainable, privacy-focused, local-first systems and open-source tooling. After a decade in academia at Penn State, he transitioned to independent development and now architects core infrastructure and logic for AI-driven developer products at Two Wells. Mark blends deep analytical modeling experience with hands-on engineering of production-ready code, prioritizing stability and real-world utility over novelty. Based in Villanova, Corsica, he’s quietly focused on tooling that surfaces the power of large language models while respecting user privacy.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics at Penn State UniversityCollege of Charleston
Github Skills (200)
programming-language10
conky10
kernel-density10
julialang10
root-finding10
science10
julia10
numerical10
cairo10
machine-learning10
hpc10
imlib210
petsc10
reloading10
amdgpu10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
m-wells/AlignedBinaryFormat.jl
Feb 2020 - Sep 2022
Memory-mapping made easy.
Contributions:2 reviews, 42 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 7 months
julia-packagememoryfile-formatinput-outputjulia-language
m-wells/InterpolatedPDFs.jl
Aug 2019 - Jan 2021
Simple extension to Distributions.jl to incorporate interpolated PDFs
Contributions:41 commits, 7 PRs, 44 pushes in 1 year 5 months
distributionspdfwkhtmltopdfpdfspdfbox
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