Mark Markarian is a Staff Software Engineer at Pandora. He possess expertise in agile methodologies, rest, tomcat, spring, scrum and 49 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Mark is an incredibly smart, dedicated, and versatile engineer. I had the pleasure of working with him directly at Pandora, and I was consistently impressed with his ability to tackle very complex problems in a highly methodical way. He has a very good understanding of Java, server side architecture, as well as, build/source control systems. In addition to his technical skills, Mark is an excellent verbal communicator which came in very handy in our highly collaborative environment. This combination of breadth/depth of experience and interpersonal skills makes him a terrific colleague to work with, and I would highly recommend Mark to anyone." and "Mark Markarian has the most scientific mind I've ever encountered. An engineer in the truest sense of the word, Mark solves software-development problems the right way: By carefully gathering data, formulating hypotheses, testing them out, and repeating as necessary. Whether evaluating open-source tools, reverse-engineering legacy code or solving urgent production issues, he always gets to the bottom of a problem. Mark really knows how to partner with other developers. He mentors junior team members with great care and patience. He collaborates on technical architecture with a combination of passion and compromise. He tests and documents his own code, much to the benefit of the entire development organization. If "team player" weren't such a cliche, I'd say he's an exemplary one. Mark's greatest strength may be his broad knowledge base on both the front and back ends. He can write rock-solid CSS and markup, compose incredibly complex asynchronous JavaScript classes, or whip up a servlet or custom tag with equal acuity. He taught me tons about test-driven development, maintainable code, and effective collaboration. I'd hire Mark to be on my team again any time, anywhere."