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Mark Nyon
Mentor
(10 reviews)
US$20.00
For every 15 mins
13
Sessions/Jobs
ABOUT ME
Full Stack Developer | Tech Lead
Full Stack Developer | Tech Lead
I’m a Technical Lead and Full-Stack Developer with 17+ years of experience delivering robust web applications and SaaS platforms. I have led engineering teams through complex projects, balancing hands-on development with mentoring and process improvements to consistently meet aggressive deadlines. Notably, I helped scale infrastructure and improve performance for SaaS products used by tens of thousands of users. I excel at driving feature delivery end-to-end—whether implementing APIs, optimizing workflows, or guiding teams—as a dependable executor and problem solver.
English
Eastern Time (US & Canada) (-05:00)
Joined March 2023
EXPERTISE
15 years experience | 2 endorsements
I've helped run an open source project based upon Ruby on Rails for eight years at https://github.com/EBWiki/EBWiki. In addition, I buil...
I've helped run an open source project based upon Ruby on Rails for eight years at https://github.com/EBWiki/EBWiki. In addition, I built an agent to fetch data from mysportsfeeds.com to power flumly.io, a site dedicated to alumni sports fans. This included feeding the site itself as well as feeding data to prompts into both SportsBERT and ChatGPT to evaluate LLM generated sports content.
10 years experience
I've created, deployed and maintained solutions on AWS for some time. Tasks I've completed include:
* Setting up autoscaling groups for s...
I've created, deployed and maintained solutions on AWS for some time. Tasks I've completed include:
* Setting up autoscaling groups for staging and production EC2 instances to create a resilient development infrastructure using Terraform
* Performed Disaster Recovery on EC2 instances using EC2Rescue on Linux instances, and mentored/advised on strategies for Windows instances using the AWS CLI and console
* Evaluated, modified and EC2 and RDS security groups to ensure that only valid connections are involved.
10 years experience
2 years experience
5 years experience
10 years experience
Fractional cto
1 year experience
Here's an example of some of the work I've been doing in this role.
I've successfully integrated e-commerce solutions across multiple si...
Here's an example of some of the work I've been doing in this role.
I've successfully integrated e-commerce solutions across multiple sites within the YourGrenadines.com network, including a Medical Elective Website and a Shuttle service, utilizing WordPress, Gravity Forms, WooCommerce and Stripe.
• Unified Travel Platform: Spearheaded the requirements gathering and discovery phase for a unified travel platform, providing a strategy for the client to peruse.
• Knowledge Management: Designed and implemented a comprehensive knowledge management system for several companies using Notion, enhancing organizational efficency.
* Business Process Automation: Identified business processes to optimize and executed several initiatives using Zapier, Notion, and other technologies.
REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS
(10 reviews)
Jim Maybee
September 2025
Excellent session with Mark. We covered a lot of topics in vibe coding with Cursor AI. I look forward to further sessions.
Ari
February 2024
Very knowlegable about AWS EC2
Justin Tan
October 2023
Awesome session - Mark's super friendly and explains things clearly for a beginner like me and was able to help me solve multiple issues within a short session. Highly recommend!
Ry Ellingson
May 2023
Very helpful with a complicated process
Ry Ellingson
May 2023
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darius goore
May 2023
Mark is an excellent tutor with deep knowledge of Ruby on Rails. In addition to teaching me about specific ways to address individual coding challenges as they have arisen, throughout multiple sessions, Mark has shown me more importantly, a lot about coding the right way to produce work that is tested, and robust enough enable easy collaboration. For anyone looking to up their understanding of programming concepts, project management and code organization, I would highly recommend seeking Mark out.
Andy Pierce
May 2023
Very friendly guy and most helpful, a pleasure to work with
SOCIAL PRESENCE
knowledgebase
An issue tracker of error messages discovered while developing as well as their solution.
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bandname-story-generator
Vue3 based version of the Bandname Generator
Vue
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AI: Automation, Actions and After-Effects
Authored around alliteration.. AI has made a splash in a lot of realms around technology. One could say it's the newest hype-cycle contest winner. What does that mean to my work? Well, I've got a...
Transitions, Beginning, Middle & End
I've had challenges with transitions and knowing when something's over. Paying attention to those more has been helpful in a few different ways. Whilst transitioning from spring to summer, here's a...
EMPLOYMENTS
Fractional Tech Lead
Gifted Sounds Media
2025-10-01-Present
- Installed a private LLM server locally for Gifted Sounds using Ollama and MstyStudio, enhancing internal AI capabilities without ...
- Installed a private LLM server locally for Gifted Sounds using Ollama and MstyStudio, enhancing internal AI capabilities without cloud dependency.
- Conducted discovery and requirements gathering for Gifted Sounds’ web-based endeavors, including integrating podcast feed imports to enable users to manage external content seamlessly and transcribing meetings.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines and project infrastructure for Gifted Sounds’ NodeJS applications, leveraging GitHub Actions, Vitest, and Playwright, boosting deployment reliability and development speed.
Node.js
React
Express.js
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Node.js
React
Express.js
AI
Llm building and deployment
Ollama
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Fractional CTO
YourGrenadines.com
2024-09-01-Present
· E-commerce Implementation: Successfully integrated e-commerce solutions across multiple sites within the YourGrenad...
· E-commerce Implementation: Successfully integrated e-commerce solutions across multiple sites within the YourGrenadines.com network, including a Medical Elective Website and a Shuttle service site, usingWordPress, Gravity Forms, and Stripe.
· Unified Travel Platform: Spearheaded the requirements gathering and discovery phase for a unified travel platform, laying the groundwork for future development.
· Knowledge Management: Designed and implemented a comprehensive knowledge management system for several companies using Notion, enhancing organizational efficiency.
· Pagespeed Optimization: Measured performance using pagespeed tools and implemented fixes in an ongoing effort that has resulted in a 20% increase in pagespeed score so far..
WordPress
Gravity forms
Stripe
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WordPress
Gravity forms
Stripe
Process automation
Page speed optimization
Accounting support
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AI Trainer
Outlier
2024-03-01-Present
- Designed deep analytical test prompts requiring agents to explore, reason about, and verify real-world codebases without modifyin...
- Designed deep analytical test prompts requiring agents to explore, reason about, and verify real-world codebases without modifying them, simulating developer workflows.
- Used Cursor to automatically generate unit, integration, or end-to-end (E2E) tests after selectively removing specific tests from codebases, evaluating how well Cursor recreated the missing test coverage.
- Created rubrics and objective verifiers for comprehensive test coverage focused on uncovering blind spots and failure points after artificial test removals.
- Implemented a test suite and scoring framework that improved error detection rates and increased trust in model reasoning during challenges.
Python
Java
C++
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Python
Java
C++
TypeScript
JavaScript
Prompt Engineering
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