Mark Bao Email & Phone Number

Miami, Florida, US

• At Goody, we’re using technology to help people enrich their personal and professional relationships, and build a category-defining product in the e-commerce space in the process. We make gifting as easy as sending a.
• The initial backend, mobile app, and web app
• A gift experience that combines complex CSS animations with an animation made in After Effects
• A way for customers to deposit money and set up recurring budgets for their team members
• A developer API to let anyone add gifting and commerce to their app and earn revenue

• Engineering and product consultant for Even, in the role of a staff software engineer.Engineering and Product Lead: Partnerless
• Led and shipped a new product that enables a core Even product, Instapay, to be used turnkey, without an integration with a partner employer, enabling new customer acquisition avenues and implementation options for.
• As product lead, developed product strategy and roadmap, performed customer development and user research, and worked cross-functionally with teams to develop a customer acquisition strategy, improve sales value, and.
• As engineering lead, responsible for technical architecture; acted as primary DRI for backend (Go) and frontend (React Native) implementation, working with other team members; performed data analysis.
• Achieved high customer satisfaction (at one employer, 85% of surveyed members said the app had a positive effect on their financial health) and word-of-mouth marketing (77% recommended to a friend).
• Delivered results from the program that was used as sales collateral for a national top-40 employer.Engineering Consultant: Internal Tools

• Worked on ArXivLab, a scientific research discovery platform, in David Blei's lab.
• Deployed two machine learning models (word embeddings, topic modeling) for article similarity over the 1.3 million article database, with the data pipeline built in Python, frontend in React, and API in Node.js.
• Contributed to Custom Views, a way for a user to segment the arXiv database to tailor their literature search.
• Developed and optimized a system for displaying popular papers based on traffic data.
• Redesigned the server architecture with Docker.
• Managed and optimized the migration of 1+ billion data points into MySQL.

• Research assistant at the Center for Decision Sciences at Columbia Business School.
• Worked on implementation of DEEP (Dynamic Experiments for Estimating Preferences), a tool for estimating individuals' risk preferences.
• Published open-source project that allows any researcher to use DEEP in their studies.
• Built tools to improve CDS's internal participant panel review system.
• Assisted on building software for lab studies.

• CTO of Onswipe, a venture-backed technology and media company bringing magazines, newspapers, and blogs to tablets, for a beautiful reading experience. Acquired in August 2014.
• Onswipe worked with clients like The New York Times, American Express, Sprint, and Hearst.
• Architected platform that handled 44 million unique visitors & over 100 million pageviews in 2012.
• Built entirety of the AWS-based backend infrastructure and most of the backend software, a data aggregator collecting tens of thousands of feeds and hundreds of thousands of articles.
• Built and managed software that handled the entire tablet and some mobile traffic of large publishers like Slate and Hearst.
• Hired for and instituted processes for the engineering team, focusing on testing, detailed documentation, code review, and coordination with product and sales teams.

Founded threewords.me, a viral social application that gained 250,000 users in 3 weeks. Started as an experiment in viral marketing combined with social psychology and the ego. Covered on CNN, TechCrunch, Mashable, and TheNextWeb. Acquired by Reinvent in January 2011.

DebateWare.com is an enterprise web software consultancy providing services to debate organizations. Clients include the Junior Statesmen Foundation.