Mark French
Senior Manager - Engineering, Finance at SeatGeek
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark French is a seasoned technology leader and software engineer with 13+ years delivering scalable backend systems. He is currently Senior Manager - Engineering, Finance at SeatGeek, where he guides cross-functional teams to translate complex requirements into reliable, scalable solutions while keeping the big picture in focus. His career spans CTO, Director of Engineering, and Principal Architect roles at Armor Payments, ScryptoFT, Payrix, and Armor Payments as a co-founder, delivering fintech and payments platforms. He specializes in back-end domains such as business logic modeling, ORMs, authentication, security, and system scalability, ensuring systems are robust and maintainable as they grow. A Grinnell College BA in Computer Science, he has hands-on leadership experience—most notably growing the iContact marketing development team and shepherding multiple web properties end-to-end. Based in Durham, North Carolina, he blends technical depth with pragmatic leadership to help teams balance day-to-day decisions with long-term architectural goals.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Grinnell College
Github Skills (50)
jquery10
tel10
intl-tel-input10
intl10
testing9
javascript9
unit-testing9
codeception9
phpunit9
acceptance-testing9
bdd9
sdk9
api9
integration-testing9
php8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Armor-Payments/armor_payments_ruby
Sep 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 10 months
apipaymentsruby-gemrubygem
mrmarkfrench/country-select-js
Oct 2014 - Aug 2022
A quick jQuery-based country picker based on https://github.com/Bluefieldscom/intl-tel-input.git
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 65 commits in 7 years 11 months
jqueryjavascriptintlintl-tel-inputtel
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