Mark Robinson
Infrastructure Engineer at Plaid
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Robinson is an Infrastructure Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building cost-effective, production-grade systems across fintech and consumer platforms. At Plaid he cut cloud spend by 25%, built a fully automated safe deployment pipeline and modernized build systems to enable self-serve developer workflows. Previously he launched features for Uber Rentals and at Coverity designed high-performance monitoring, test-data tooling and API key authentication while reducing build times and simplifying REST APIs. An active open-source contributor to bors-ng—adding squash merges and author-preserving commits—he combines hands-on engineering with documentation and cross-team collaboration to avoid "throwing things over the wall." He also supports hiring at scale, interviewing roughly 150 candidates per year, and brings a pragmatic, cost-saving mindset proven by licensing and tooling optimizations.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng, Computer Engineering, B.Eng, Computer Engineering at University of VictoriaGraduate level courses, Computer Science, Graduate level courses, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
French
Github Skills (5)
github-api10
elixir10
continuous-integration9
api9
api-doc9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
bors-ng/bors-ng
Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
👁 A merge bot for GitHub Pull Requests
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 3 PRs, 25 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on modifying and extending the functionality of the merge bot, bors-ng. They added features such as squash merging and preserving the original PR author. They made changes to the GitHub API interactions, including creating commits, merging branches, and updating pull requests. Additionally, the user improved code quality and fixed issues related to merge behavior.
appveyorborsbotelixirmerge
MarkSRobinson/dewar
Mar 2017 - Jan 2019
A Golang library for Plaid
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
golanggolang-libraryplaid
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