# Mark Long

> Software Engineer & Engineering Manager based in Denver, Colorado.

## About

Engineering Manager with a B.S.E. in Computer Systems Engineering (Arizona State University)
and M.S. in Computer Science (Colorado State University), specializing in high-performance
distributed computing and high-performance engineering teams.

## Experience

Built web commerce systems, a cloud-based office suite for SEC reporting, enterprise
applications for companies and governments, high-throughput data pipelines for marketing,
advertising, and security, and grew a startup from zero to paying customers while raising
$1M in seed funding.

## Technologies

Elixir, Ruby, Python, TypeScript, Java, C#, SQL, NoSQL, AWS, Phoenix, Django, ASP.NET, Spring, Rails

## Talks

- [Leadership Training](/talks/leadership/slides/)
- [Processing 2M events/second with Ruby and Redis on Kubernetes](/talks/how_to_handle_2M_events_a_second/slides/)

## Writing

- [Fault Tolerance in Distributed Parallel Computing](/fault_tolerance_distributed_parallel_computing.pdf)

## Noteworthy

- United States Patent [7,676,494](https://patents.google.com/patent/US20050071373A1/)

## Contact

- Email: mark@markclong.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/markclong
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markclong1