# Mark Farnum

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/markfarnum

Mark is an experienced software engineer with a passion for solving hard problems. He's a driven creative with a technical background.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Space Telescope Science Institute
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States
- building massively scalable systems w/ Kubernetes on AWS
- running data processing jobs w/ Python + Airflow
- managing infrastructure w/ Terraform & CI/CD actions
- building frontend tools w/ React

### Software Engineering Manager @ Propagate
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
Managing a team of engineers building software that helps drive the transition to regenerative agriculture.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Hashboard
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
- Orchestrated an infra migration from servers on EC2 to containers on ECS, managed with Terraform. This improved scalability and streamlined resource management
- Built internal tooling that powered environment management, deployments, and monitoring.
- Optimized performance of Python services and React apps by improving profiling and leveraging concurrency to reduce bottlenecks. Reduced worst-case response times by 10x

### Senior Software Engineer @ Nayya
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | United States
- Rewrote our core algorithm to handle 5x as many use cases.
- Migrated our infra from Heroku to an AWS stack using ECS, RDS, Lambda, and AppSync.
- Set up CI/CD pipeline with zero downtime & instant rollbacks, meeting 99.9% uptime requirements.
- Migrated our frontend from Rails to React in a modular process.
- Integrated a cross-channel engagement platform to centralize our engagement logic & enable non-devs to create workflows and campaigns. Boosted engagement by 25% over 3 months.
- Pulled significant logical domains of our codebase into separate microservices. This enabled higher velocity in our team and less complexity in our code.

### Senior Software Engineer @ ViaHero
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States
- Demonstrated strong leadership and decision-making abilities within a small but growing startup.
- Developed new product features, managed servers & databases, and maintained a large NodeJS + React codebase
- Collaborated with product and marketing teams to find technical solutions to support their goals.
- Transformed a manual deployment process into an automated CD/CI pipeline with zero downtime.
- Developed a cross-platform native app with a custom notification management service in 1 month.
- Improved a slow client-rendered webapp through server-side rendering, lazy-loading, and code bundle optimizations. Load time was reduced by over 50%.

### Intern @ Sear Sound
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | New York, NY
Assisting and fulfilling the needs of clients and other engineers at the oldest
recording studio in NYC. A combination of assistant engineering tasks, studio maintenance, and customer service and hospitality.

### Member, Arranger @ Hyannis Sound
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Hyannis, MA
Singing tenor and vocal arranging with Cape Cod's premier 10-man A Cappella group.

### Recording Engineer @ Ithaca College Recording Services
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Ithaca, NY
Provided recording and live sound services for hundreds of student and faculty performances on campus each year as well as running recording sessions for clients as an engineer and producer.

### Intern @ Warner Bros. Records
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Greater Nashville Area, TN
Learned from some of the best audio engineers and musicians in the business.
Assisted with recording session set-up and tear-down, mix documentation and recall, editing, backup, gear repair, and studio maintenance.


## Education
### Bachelor of Music in Sound Recording Technology
Ithaca College
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mark-farnum

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Last updated: 2026-04-01