Mark Tse

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ABOUT ME

Software Developer

I am a software developer, in the sense that I help bring software to life, whether it is through programming, testing, enabling continuous integration and deployment, documentation, or reaching congruence with other team members, teams, and client representatives. I love to make life easier for others by advocating for internal and external consumers, supporting the team with the best tools available, and enabling developers of all levels to excel in what they do.

I love to learn, and spend a good portion of my time outside of work learning new concepts and technologies in the field. I enjoy sleeping, volleyball, and watching e-sports in my spare time. I also write at blog.neverendingqs.com

English

Eastern Time (US & Canada) (-05:00)

Joined November 2017

EXPERTISE

AWS

3 years experience

Our company started moving from self-hosted to AWS-hosted a few years ago, and I was on one of the first projects to AWS. We first experi...

Our company started moving from self-hosted to AWS-hosted a few years ago, and I was on one of the first projects to AWS. We first experimented with CloudFormation and Elastic Beanstalk, but with our transition to being a DevOps team (being responsible for development, deployment, and monitoring), we switched to a serverless architecture to reduce operation (dollar and time) costs.

AWS EMRAws kinesis streamsAWS DynamoDB

AWS EMRAws kinesis streamsAWS DynamoDBAws cloudwatchAws elastic beanstalk Serverless framework Amazon RDS Amazon S3 AWS Lambda

JavaScript

2 years experience

I introduced myself to Node.js via a Udemy course, and have since used it and am still using it to develop and maintain a big data platfo...

I introduced myself to Node.js via a Udemy course, and have since used it and am still using it to develop and maintain a big data platform in a corporate setting. My experience has been mostly on back-end (Node.js, especially with AWS Lambda and the Serverless Framework), but I have developed some single-page applications (Angular and React) on the side.

Es6 Express.js npm

Es6 Express.js npm Mocha Serverless framework Node.js AWS Lambda

Python

3 years experience

Before transitioning to a serverless architecture, we leveraged Python 3.x.x and boto3 (AWS SDK) to deploy our product into AWS. I wrote ...

Before transitioning to a serverless architecture, we leveraged Python 3.x.x and boto3 (AWS SDK) to deploy our product into AWS. I wrote a functional library on the side that mimics the likes of C# LINQ / Java streams / Apache Spark's RDD transformations, although I now find delight in list and dict comprehensions and the magic that is in slicing.

Python 3 Python 2 PyPI

Python 3 Python 2 PyPI Boto3

6 years experience

C# was one of the first languages I encountered (after Java), and I find it to be the most enjoyable compiled language to write to date (...

C# was one of the first languages I encountered (after Java), and I find it to be the most enjoyable compiled language to write to date (although deploying it is another story). Being in company where the main product is written in C#, I am quite comfortable with it.

Async.js LINQAsp.net web api 2

Async.js LINQAsp.net web api 2Nunit Ninject

SQL

6 years experience

I have worked with several SQL engines throughout my career, starting with SQL server while I was working on an analytics project (especi...

I have worked with several SQL engines throughout my career, starting with SQL server while I was working on an analytics project (especially the data ETL process). I have since worked with PostgreSQL in code examples and MySQL via AWS Aurora.

Microsoft SQL Server MySQL PostgreSQL

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SOCIAL PRESENCE

GitHub

openssl-self-signed-certificate

Self-signed certificate for development use, generated using openssl.

JavaScript

pyiterable

Python comes with some nice built-in methods for operating on iterables, but it can get messy really quickly if you want to transform an iterable multiple times. Write more expressive code by chaining built-in transformations with this module.

Python

Stack Overflow

1144 Reputation

Community Posts

Promises in Serial Using Reduce

Learn how to run a series of promises in serial and in batches using Array.prototype.reduce().

Tech I Use: Netlify

Simple web hosting so you can focus on the content.

Ensure All Nock Interceptors Are Used

Ensure no tests leave behind unused nock interceptors to prevent one test from affecting another test’s state.

EMPLOYMENTS

Software Developer

D2L

2012-05-01-Present

Building D2L's next generation educational analytics platform. Event-driven, lambda-like data-processing architecture backed by a distr...

Building D2L's next generation educational analytics platform. Event-driven, lambda-like data-processing architecture backed by a distributed NoSQL database. Data is exposed via a RESTful API layer. Designing, coding, automated and exploratory testing, build and deployment support. Technical risk analysis to support product decisions. Anything and everything to ensure it reaches and operates in production.

Python

Java

Python

Java

Node.js

OAuth 2.0

Apache Spark

Serverless framework

PROJECTS

OAuth 2.0 Client ShellView Project

2016

OAuth2 client where you provide the client credentials to test the 3-legged authorization flow.

Node.js

Heroku

OAuth 2.0

Node.js

Heroku

OAuth 2.0

Bootstrap

pyiterableView Project

2015

Python comes with some nice built-in methods for operating on iterables, but it can get messy really quickly if you want to transform an ...

Python

PyPI

Python

PyPI