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

01

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
View on GitHub
02

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
View on GitHub
03

AI Image Captioning Project

origin: aiclub.sdsu.edu ↗

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
View on GitHub
04

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
View on GitHub
05

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
View on GitHub
06

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
View on GitHub

#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

San Diego State University

#4 Connect

Contact

Open to software engineering and DevOps roles - cleared and civilian.

github.com/tmarktg

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