# Mark Sakauye > Staff Software Engineer at CaptivateIQ - we're hiring! Location: Duluth, Georgia, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/marksakauye • Staff Software Engineer with 15 years delivering scalable solutions and leading high-impact technical initiatives. Recently architected next-gen calculation engine achieving 10x performance improvements and led infrastructure migration reducing costs by 90% while eliminating system outages. • Core Technologies: Golang, Python, Django, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Terraform, with extensive full-stack and DevOps experience across enterprise-scale applications. • Technical Leadership & Communication: Mentored several engineers with many mentees advancing to tech lead roles. Excel at translating complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical stakeholders, facilitating cross-team collaboration and driving organization-wide adoption of modern practices. • Proven Delivery: Led multiple concurrent projects to on-time completion and consistently rated as top technical resource and code reviewer across engineering organization through peer reviews ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ CaptivateIQ Jan 2021 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer @ CaptivateIQ Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Technical Lead @ Aquicore Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 • Enhanced customer ability to perform job duties by providing access to valuable real-time information through an extensible, self-service dashboard framework. • Provided insights and influenced decision making on long term real estate operational goals by developing a RESTful service that automatically syncs data with the energy benchmarking service ENERGY STAR. • Increased confidence in releases through thorough test coverage and testing scripts that reduced the number of bugs introduced into production by half ### Senior Web Application Developer @ Deloitte Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Arlington • Developed data management system in PostgreSQL and JavaScript stack to dynamically query and aggregate geospatial data and rank locations based on a scoring algorithm to pinpoint the most cost-effective and profitable areas to invest in buildings and real estate for a wide array of industries. • Developed Neo4j and PostgreSQL graph database and interface on JavaScript stack that allows users to explore political campaign data. • Developed SQL Server scripts to ingest, clean and massage data for use in supply chain analytics. • Developed Python scripts that wrangled data from reporting systems and allowed for better market analysis of biotechnology data. • Designed and developed mock data generator module in Python with a Django-based interface that allows for the creation of realistic looking relational data with dynamic statistical distributions, which saved days’ worth of person-hours in projects where data is not readily available and must be mocked. ### Software Architect @ University of Tennessee Health Science Center Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Greater Memphis Area • Continued full stack development for Unity to further enhance its support for clinical trials and registries, such as creating an email alert system and automated reports. • Created secure web portal for physicians to access patient information that utilized jQuery, Bootstrap and Sass with object-oriented PHP and Oracle. ### Lead Developer / Program Manager @ University of Tennessee Health Science Center Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Greater Memphis Area • Led the development of Unity, a web-based database management tool, from concept to creation using agile and TDD. • Supervised and led a team of programmers through the entire software development life cycle. Duties included creating and managing assignments, timelines, and milestones. • Full stack development: managed RHEL server and web environment, including Apache and PostgreSQL, designed relational database schema, developed back-end in Python using Django web framework, developed front-end (UI, UX) using jQuery, Bootstrap and Sass and wrote complete unit test coverage. • Supervised, mentored and led biomedical informaticists. • Served as administrator for Windows SAS server. • Worked with and developed plugins for REDCap, a PHP and MySQL browser-based, metadata-driven Electronic Data Capture (EDC) software solution and workflow methodology for designing clinical and translational research databases. • One plugin adds built-in delimiter support for checkbox fields in the data import function, which allows for easier migration of data when using multi-value fields. • Assisted in writing the technical sections of grant applications. • Virtualized Oracle database and CentOS servers in collaboration with the Information Technology Services (ITS) department. • Integrated health insurance claims data from TennCare into a pediatric high-risk asthma patient registry that facilitated improved patient care from both physicians and coordinators. Challenging High Risk Asthma in Memphis through Partnership (CHAMP): http://www.lebonheur.org/promise/ • Continued work with technical and non-technical clients to develop multiple web-based projects using Oracle, PHP, JavaScript and agile development. ### Web Developer / Biomedical Informaticist @ University of Tennessee Health Science Center Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Greater Memphis Area • Worked with technical and non-technical clients to assess needs, and then develop multiple web-based projects based on those needs in a Linux, Apache, Oracle, PHP stack using agile development. Designed relational database schemas, wrote efficient Oracle SQL queries, developed object-oriented PHP, utilized JavaScript, Scriptaculous and Prototype. • Redesigned, refactored and developed new, upgraded version of UTHSC’s web-based Clinical Trial Management System, Slim-Prim, using PHP, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, and Oracle SQL, that automated a great amount of functionality, reduced processor utilization and load times, and enhanced UX. ### Technical Consultant @ The University of Tennessee Health Science Center Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Greater Nashville Area, TN • Worked with researchers to create custom robust ImageJ macros for several motion tracking experiments with mice. This allowed researchers to accurately and automatically create statistics based on the results of each experiment. ### Technical Contractor @ The University of Tennessee Health Science Center Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Greater Memphis Area • Implemented a search engine using Zend Framework’s Zend Search Lucene, a PHP text search engine derived from Apache Lucene, which allowed users to index and search through Office and PDF documents residing in a centralized repository as well as text in Oracle databases. • Developed multiple web pages (with PHP, HTML and CSS) that improved efficiency within the office. One webpage tracked and displayed absences with an email approval system. • Assisted in development of a Java based program that interpreted and sent HL7 v3 automated messages to assist in inter-hospital communication. ## Education ### BS in Computer Science Vanderbilt University Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 ### Computer Science Boston University Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mark-sakauye-75169136 --- Source: https://flows.cv/marksakauye JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/marksakauye/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22