About Me

As an engineer, my aim is to create solutions that address the core of a problem, with or without software. As an adventurer, I enjoy tackling new challenges and strive for excellence, making sure my colleagues and I achieve our goals together. As a lifelong learner, I value opportunities to broaden my knowledge and perspective, which enables me to contribute significantly to any endeavor I pursue.

Contact

https://mclark.dev

[email protected]

Skills

Full stack web development, remote collaboration, JavaScript, React, Python, TypeScript, Django, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, AWS, Jira, Confluence, git, GitHub Actions, Docker, Terraform, Agile, Scrum, DevOps, TDD

Experience

Private Tutor

Aug 2024 - Present

Work with individual clients to provide guidance for personal or professional projects.

• Mentor and create plans to achieve personal and professional goals of my clients
• Provide guidance of best practices to improve clients understanding of software design principles
• Assist the design and mockup phases of clients projects to better understand requirements

Syntellis Performance Solutions (acquired by Strata Decision Technology)

Software Engineer II, Jan 2023 - Oct 2023

Collaborate with staff engineers to document and refactor existing systems to integrate with other departments of the organization

• Lead refactoring efforts to reduce infrastructure costs and processing times, saving over $1000 a month on operational costs
• Improve CI/CD pipelines to automate testing and building dependencies with GitHub Actions, reducing build times from 10 minutes to 2 minutes
• Collaborate with platform teams to refactor Terraform and Docker Compose, fixing breaking changes when upgrading to stable versions and reducing complexity
• Develop exception handling messages to highlight critical system failures which empowered customer success teams to handle client data issues independently

Stratasan (acquired by Syntellis Performance Solutions)

Software Engineer, Feb 2020 - Jan 2023

Create and maintain a platform used to upload, parse, and audit healthcare facility revenue data to comply with state regulatory reporting guidelines

• Build frontend with Django and React, using SQLAlchemy to interact with data stored in Postgres and Snowflake databases