# Gideon Mars > Software Engineer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/gideonmars I’m a full-stack software engineer with over 10 years of industry experience. I love being able to make products that help people accomplish their goals or improve their lives. I have greatly enjoyed working on internal tools, as well as on user-facing dashboards that communicate information effectively and beautifully. Most recently, I’ve worked on a SASS application in React and Go, doing both back-end and front-end work. Most recently, I've worked with: Go, React, GraphQL, Prometheus, Linkerd, Kubernetes Previously, I've worked with: Scala, Ruby on Rails, Backbone.js ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Hinge Health Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Engineer @ Buoyant, Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area Full-stack engineer on a small team of engineers working on software infrastructure tools for Kubernetes users. Developer on Linkerd, a popular open-source service mesh for managing distributed applications. Developer on Buoyant Cloud, a SASS application that aggregates customer metrics and provides graphs, tables, configuration interfaces and alerts for microservices running on Kubernetes. [React, GraphQL, Go, Prometheus, Kubernetes, Docker, Linkerd] • Worked on several versions of Buoyant Cloud, writing both back-end and front-end of several large features • Primary developer on the Linkerd 1 UI, one of the key ways users understood their distributed traffic • Evaluated and integrated several technologies to improve developer efficiency and meet product goals, including graphQL, Recharts, MaterialUI • Wrote several integrations to external services (Slack, Pagerduty, Argo), worked with many APIs to power the product (Mailchimp, Chargebee, ActiveCampaign) • Helped manage and maintain the application on Kubernetes in Azure. Developed and tested on local and staging environments. Tools used: Helm, Azure CLI, Linkerd • Evangelized Linkerd to the engineering community by giving several technical talks about Linkerd features and development at meetups and conferences, to audiences of 30-1200 engineers Selected Talks & Presentations Slides (and links to videos and accompanying code repositories) for the talks I’ve given are listed here: https://github.com/rmars/talks/ • ServiceMeshCon EU: What happens when service mesh maintainers get a taste of their own mesh? • KubeCon NA (Co-presenter): There’s a Bug in My Service Mesh! What Do You Do When the Mesh is At Fault? • Women Who Go: Meetup Using GraphQL to write awesome Golang APIs • Kubecon EU: When the Command Line is Not Enough • CloudExpo Europe: Debugging Services in Kubernetes with Linkerd 2.0 • SF Reliability Engineering Meetup: Best practices for debugging your Kubernetes clusters ### Software Engineer II @ Twitter Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 Full-stack engineer on the internal tools team for Ads, obtaining data from large data warehouses to build highly customized data tools for Twitter’s salespeople (around 600 internal customers) [Scala, JavaScript, Backbone.js, Ruby, Rails] • Built comprehensive suite of tools to give actionable insight into ad performance for Twitter's largest ad spenders • Aggregated data from a number of internal sources, eliminating need to search through myriad of hard to use, legacy tools • Led development (architecture, design, coding and mentoring other developers) as tech lead on an advertiser/vertical benchmarking tool (a quarter-long effort by 5 team members) • Provided salespeople with data needed to drive sales from big advertisers, resulting in large incremental revenue gains for the company (hundreds of thousands of dollars) • Automated common workflows and data processing tasks, saving sales team hundreds of hours of manual, error-prone work • Maintained and rewrote many legacy tools (from Ruby to Scala), improving performance and deleting thousands of lines of old code ### Teaching Assistant @ MIT Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Cambridge, MA Coached students on communicating technical concepts to both technical and nontechnical audiences. • Lead sessions (along with professor) on effective technical communication • Gave personalized coaching and feedback to students on content, structure, body language, speech • Improved features on course website (in PHP) • Graded oral and written assignments ### Software Engineering Intern @ TripAdvisor Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Newton, MA Worked on internal tools for sales and product team in Java, Velocity and Ruby on Rails. • Added new features to a time reporting internal tool • Improved interface of a client management tool • Automated several tasks, saving the managers hours of time per week ### Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Intern @ Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain • Set up and documented hardware and software to integrate newly purchased vehicle into research group • Gathered test data from flights to improve flight quality and investigate vehicle capabilities • Operated ground station during flights • Configured autopilot parameters to enable stable flight • Added functionality to existing remote control program allowing the vehicle to be controlled by a laptop as an alternate pilot ### Wireless Electronic Lock Engineering Intern @ Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Developed and built new hardware functionality for an existing Schlage lock product. • Added remote control capabilities to existing electronic lock using Zigbee technology. • Planned all stages of project, assisted in design and review of hardware • Produced design documents, flow charts and block diagrams following the New Product Development Cycle • Soldered and tested PCB, built working remote controlled lock prototype ### Physics Tutor @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Helped students with concepts of mechanics, provide one-on-one and group homework assistance. ### Electrical Engineering Extern @ Brown Innovations Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Boston, MA Installed bootloader software on Analog Devices Blackfin processor circuit board using JTAG ## Education ### MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 ### Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 ### Electrical Engineering University of Cambridge Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/marsr --- Source: https://flows.cv/gideonmars JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/gideonmars/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22