👋, I'm Mark and welcome to my GitHub profile!
I’m a Digital Technologist blending code, storytelling, and culture — building digital experiences that are performant, accessible, and human-centered.
I didn't start out as an engineer. My early years were in paid search and web content — figuring out what made people click, convert, and come back. That curiosity eventually pulled me deeper into the code behind those experiences, and I've been building at that intersection ever since. It's a background that comes in handy when the work requires more than just shipping features.
"He was the quintessential team player, who believes strongly in empowering people to be able to understand how to make web changes for themselves, for the sake of teaching everyone how to use the tools in front of them..."
"Beyond his technical skills he is an exceptional mentor. He always took the time to help others, ensuring that junior and senior developers alike felt supported and had the resources they needed to grow..."
"Mark is earnest, with a “get it done” work ethic. He is a great addition to any team. Mark would often take on tasks and components he was not assigned to in order to both hone skills as well as help out team mates..."
A selection of my work that has reached global audiences across various platforms.
- JavaScript Weekly - Issue 517: Reading John Resig’s ‘Pro JavaScript Techniques’ 14 Years Later
- JavaScript Weekly - Issue 488: The Tale of Upgrading a Legacy Angular App
- Today with Hoda and Jenna: Download these apps to help with your resolutions
- Languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP
- Frameworks & Libraries: Angular, React, React Native, Next.js, Astro, Vue, Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, daisyUI, jQuery, NestJS
- Templating: Shopify Liquid (Ruby), Handlebars (JS), Smarty (PHP)
- Cloud & Platforms: GitHub, Microsoft Azure, WP Engine, WordPress, Shopify, Netlify, GoDaddy, Cloudflare, OpenAI
- Digital Media Tools: Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma (Dev Mode), Descript
A curated highlight of standout projects—each representing a distinct creative and technical milestone.
- Goodbye WordPress. Hello Astro!: 5-step playbook featuring Juvenile, Mark Morrison, Kendrick Lamar, Biggie Smalls, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Blackstreet & Boyz II Men.
- DesktopAthlete.com: Your AI assistant focused on providing you with FREE exercise programs for as little as 20 minutes.
- Mighty Morphin Data Structures: AllWebSD.com Season 6 demos on data structures with a mighty morphin twist.
- The Friendship Algorithm: A quick take on Sheldon Cooper formulating his workflow to making new friends.
A collection of experimental projects and prototypes—brief detours through new ideas, technologies, and creative curiosities. Think of them as digital warp pipes: unexpected, temporary, and purely exploratory.
- Docker: Delving into the capabilities of Docker to develop, ship, and run applications that work on every machine.
- Plantly: Shipping production-ready iOS and Android apps with React Native and Expo.
- Sales Dashboard: React, Vite and Supabase for a real-world dashboard that fetches, inserts, and updates data in real-time.
- Vanlife: Deeper dive into Advanced React concepts utilizing React Router 6, Cloud Firestore and deployed to Netlify.
- Taskly: Learning React Native by building out a shopping list, reminder and a bonus blank screen for prototyping.
- NestJS: Exploring REST API development through progressive Node.js framework using Prisma for ORM & Neon for database.
- Hydrogen Storefront: Tinkering with Shopify's Remix stack for headless commerce querying products with GraphQL.
- The Renaissance: Revisiting Angular in its latest form through the eyes of Frontend Masters.
- Cloudflare Worker AI App: AI App utilizing Cloudflare Workers, OpenAI and Polygon API.
- Stock Predictions AI App: Web app which consumes the aforementioned Cloudflare Worker AI App.
- Desktop Athlete: MindStudio's AI Agent version, offering free and effective exercise programs for busy individuals.
- Dad Joke Loading: AI Agent that scans a web page and turns it into perfectly timed dad jokes and puns.
- The Last Food Bender: AI Agent that helps you stick to YOUR budget by scraping your grocery store's site, creates a shopping list and suggests a recipe.
Archived projects with strong foundations—candidates for future updates or modern revivals.
- Angular Task List: Written in Angular 9, sort and search table columns, persist sorting on refresh, drag/drop columns and resize columns. Forked over 60+ times with 9K+ views.
- Puff Finder: Written in Vue 2, a listing app for querying seed companies, strains, brands, products, batches, retailers and studies.
Mission-driven initiatives I support beyond traditional work hours, focused on community, accessibility, and education.
AllWebSD Podcast - Web Developer storytelling and community building out of America's Finest City.
- KiloByte Contributor to local 501c3 nonprofit, San Diego Futures Foundation.
- Built with React Router Template, React 19 and Tailwind 4 with chatbot services provided by OpenAI!
Puff Provisions Podcast - California Proposition 64 Advocacy Project
- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rated show on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
- Developed with Astro and packed with interactive features using React including a Procurement App for cultivators planning a grow site from 0 to 1, US legalization map, strain explorer and more!
Disclaimer: The perspectives and advocacy initiatives shared are solely Mark’s and do not reflect the positions of any current or past employers.