Mark Wilson
Senior Software Engineer at BoodleBox
Greater St. Louis United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Wilson is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native Scala systems, ETL pipelines, and bioinformatics tools, currently shaping backend services and Kubernetes infrastructure at BoodleBox. He blends a formal CS education from Georgia Tech with hands-on genomics and data-analysis experience from the Danforth Plant Science Center, enabling him to translate domain research into robust production services. Mark has modernized legacy stacks—reimplementing PL/SQL APIs in functional Scala—and improved developer productivity through faster test suites, tracing, and simplified CI/CD. Comfortable across AWS, Databricks, Kafka, and Kubernetes, he also brings practical security compliance experience (SOC2/Vanta) to product engineering. Colleagues rely on him to bridge ops and dev teams, mentor peers on deployments, and introduce pragmatic ideas rooted in both scientific rigor and production experience.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyAssociate of Science - AS Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS Computer Science at St. Louis Community CollegeBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Missouri-Saint Louis
Github Skills (34)
genomes10
bioinformatics10
assembly9
blast9
image-analysis9
metagenomics9
science9
api8
lua8
taxonomy8
ggplot7
neovim7
vim7
clustering7
rna-seq6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
afinit/MMseqs2
Oct 2018 - Sep 2023
MMseqs2: ultra fast and sensitive search and clustering suite
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
ultraclusteringsensitivesuiteultra-fast
afinit/dotfiles
Feb 2015 - May 2024
Contributions:26 pushes in 9 years 4 months
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