Mark Stewart

software development, teaching, curriculum modernization, bioinformatics

Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

About

I prioritize contacts through my website at www.neurodynamic.online. Specialties: Elixir/Phoenix, Elm, Rails, React, TypeScript, Tailwind, explaining complex concepts in understandable terms, interdisciplinary communication, interdisciplinary collaboration, bioinformatics.

Experience

  • Senior Software Engineer at blockit
    Dec 2024 - Sep 2025 · 10 mos

  • Instructor at Kickstart Coding
    Sep 2018 - Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 7 mos

    Developed curriculum and co-lead early cohorts, helping grow the school to a profitable start up with revenue of $250,000/year. Consulted on architecture, scoping, tooling, and task division/estimation for over 40 different final web application projects and performed over 700 code reviews. Performed market research and analysis that led to updating the curriculum for React hooks, and wrote a comprehensive adaptation of ReactJS.org's tutorials, explanations, and examples from the old class-based React to the new hooks-based React. Conceived, designed, and implemented a debugging training application which enabled students to have 10-20x more error resolution practice, saving the months of initial and ongoing curriculum work it would've taken to build similar exercises by hand. Implemented new features in custom internal learning management and student communication systems.

  • Full Stack Engineer at CodeBits
    Jan 2013 - Jan 2022 · 9 yrs 1 mo

    Working as a full-stack web designer and developer for mostly small-to-medium sized businesses. Designed, built, launched, and maintained multiple full-stack Rails app from the ground up. Implemented new features for legacy applications.

  • Instructor at Galvanize Inc
    Jun 2018 - Oct 2018 · 5 mos

    Ran the pilot program for a B2B education contract.

  • Software Developer Instructor at Learners Guild
    Apr 2018 - May 2018 · 2 mos

    Assisted in winding down the program by providing some short-term teaching coverage from April through May of 2018.