About Mark

Hi! My name is Mark Repka, I'm a Software Engineer located in Rochester, NY.

I graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2016 from the Computer Science program and am currently working at Bitovi as a Software Engineer and JavaScript Consultant on the Backend Team.

I previously worked at Kodak Alaris as a Software Engineer on the Kodak Moments web team.

Software Experience

I have experience in the following technologies and platforms...

• Nodejs Backend Development
• Liquibase
• Temporal.io
• OpenAI Nodejs SDK
• Telegram Bot API
• Restify / Express REST API Servers
• PostgreSQL / Azure SQL Database
• GraphQL
• Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
• Linux Server Administration
• React User Interface Library
• Redux / React-Redux
• C# .NET WinForms Applications
• Windows Print Drivers v3
• Agile Software Development
• Jira Issue & Project Tracking
• Computer Networking
• NGINX / Lighttpd / Apache / IIS
• Docker Containers
• Raspberry Pi / Single Board Computers
• Linux System Hardening / Security
• Gatsby Site Generator
• Azure Serverless Functions
• DigitalOcean
• DigitalOcean Spaces / Amazon S3
• koajs Web Framework
• AWS Lambda Serverless Functions
• Jest JavaScript Testing Framework
• Sequelize ORM
• Redis
• DevOps

I have experience in the following programming languages. Green denotes extensive experience, yellow is intermediate level, red is beginner level or currently learning:

• JavaScript / Nodejs
• TypeScript
• Shell Scripts (Bash, Batch, PS)
• C# .NET (and Core)
• Java
• C/C++
• Rust
• Python
• PowerShell

Personal Computing

I have been running all of my home computers on some flavour of Linux since around 2009, generally Debian based systems, and have favoured a pretty stripped down system running i3 window manager with many of the xfce applications and tools.You can check out more of my specific configuration on my GitHub config files repository.

I am currently using the following systems...

• AMD 5900x / 6900xt Desktop
• Framework Laptop
• Pinebook Pro
• Intel NUC (NUC7i3BNH)
• Raspberry Pi 4

Previously I have used...