Ryan Mark
Lead Software Engineer at Snapsheet Inc
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Mark is a Lead Software Engineer in Portland with 17 years building web-first products at the intersection of journalism and engineering. Trained as a journalist with an MS from Northwestern's Medill, he has led editorial engineering teams at Vox Media and newsroom dev teams at the Chicago Tribune, then scaled into infrastructure and leadership roles integrating acquisitions and modernizing stacks at OneMain and Snapsheet. He’s a pragmatic full-stack engineer who spans UX, frontend frameworks, Rails/Python backends, DevOps and cost-conscious AWS architecture, and has a track record of reducing on-call noise and driving major upgrades. Known for enabling journalists to self-publish complex interactive stories, he blends storytelling instincts with systems thinking to deliver useful, maintainable tools. An early freelance webbuilder and lifelong tinkerer, he’s comfortable moving between code, servers, and prose to solve product and editorial problems.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science and Math, BA Computer Science and Math at Augustana CollegeMS Journalism, MS Journalism at Northwestern University
Github Skills (133)
ibm-watson10
backbone10
headless-browser10
transcription10
phantomjs10
video-editing10
watson10
speech-to-text10
text-based9
wordpress9
scriptable9
social-media9
jquery-mobile9
wordpress-themes9
twitter-bootstrap9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
voxmedia/setup-vox-rig
Oct 2014 - Jan 2020
Contributions:75 commits, 39 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 3 months
mac-osmiddlemansettingmacos-x
newsapps/document-viewer
May 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:19 commits in 11 months
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