SOFTWARE ENGINEER • SAN DIEGO, CA
Hey,I'm Mark.
Full-stack engineer specializing in Python, TypeScript, and cloud infrastructure. Active DoD Secret clearance.
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full-stack engineer → devops → cleared defense tech

#1 Build
Projects
Cinephile

Conversational movie recommendation engine built on a RAG pipeline with an agentic LangGraph path, multi-turn context, and an evaluation harness.
- Python
- FastAPI
- Qdrant
- FastEmbed
- LangGraph
- Claude API
- React
Serverless Stock Data Pipeline

Event-driven market data pipeline on AWS — EventBridge → Lambda → DynamoDB → API Gateway → S3 — provisioned with Terraform and deployed via GitHub Actions CI/CD.
- AWS Lambda
- DynamoDB
- EventBridge
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- Python

Image captioning pipeline that grew out of AI Club at SDSU — BLIP generates captions, Claude rewrites them as memes, and Pillow renders them onto the image, served via a FastAPI + React app.
- Python
- Hugging Face
- BLIP
- Claude API
- Pillow
- FastAPI
- React
- Vite
ATO in a Pipeline

Secure software delivery reference pipeline that hard-blocks on SAST, secrets, and CVE scans, signs and attests every image with Syft/Cosign, and enforces signature and policy checks at Kubernetes admission via Kyverno — with Terraform drift detection and every control mapped to NIST 800-53.
- GitLab CI
- Semgrep
- Gitleaks
- Trivy
- Syft
- Cosign
- Kyverno
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- NIST 800-53
PortCheck

Full-stack cargo entry screening system simulating a port-of-entry workflow — importers file manifests, a risk engine flags shipments, and officers/supervisors review and track them through an Angular console backed by a Spring Boot REST/SOAP API and PostgreSQL, deployable via Docker Compose, Kubernetes, or Terraform-provisioned AWS (ECS Fargate + RDS + ALB).
- Spring Boot
- Angular
- PostgreSQL
- SOAP
- Docker Compose
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- AWS
Sentinel-Grid

Sensor-telemetry ingestion and analytics platform that joins an existing field-sensor deployment mid-stream — idempotent ingestion, rolling-window anomaly detection and alerting, a documented REST API, a React operator dashboard, and a C#/.NET notifier consuming that same API as a second-language client, deployed live to AWS via Terraform.
- FastAPI
- TimescaleDB
- Redis
- React
- C# / .NET
- Terraform
- AWS EC2
- GitHub Actions
#2 Background
About
From 2023 to 2025 I studied Computer Science at San Diego State University, graduating summa cum laude with a 3.9 GPA. In early 2026 I worked as a software engineer for CineStar Cinemas, where I owned a production booking platform serving live traffic across multiple client sites. Since then I've been heads-down building a RAG-based movie recommender, a serverless AWS data pipeline, and an AI meme generator, while looking for my next full-time role. Below are the clubs I was a part of in SDSU

#3 Curiosity
Interests









#4 Connect
Contact
Open to software engineering and DevOps roles - cleared and civilian.
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