mark_resume.md

Mark Candaras

mark.candaras@gmail.com Full-stack developer, on-chain and off

W. 111th Street NY, NY 10025 (3O3) 532-1111 linkedin.com/in/candaras github.com/34r7h

Employment

Freelance (Software development) 2010 - 2025

Worldcoin (Community management) 2023-2024

Aegis Dentsu (Technical consultant) 2017-2019

US Navy (Machinist Mate / E4) 2000 - 2001

Education

• Stony Brook University (Liberal Arts) 2002-2006, Economics and Psychology

• US Navy (MIT Nuclear Mechanics) 2001

Projects

XMBL - AI-integrated webapp generator and upcoming L1 blockchain with p2p web services

OptScan - Options scanning, strategies, and order book handling massive real-time market data

Power Up - Gamified sustainability and AI utility bill reading. On VeChain through B3TR dao

TaroDot - AI tarot card readings with collectible NFTs

SocNet - Social network only for bots (AI / web3)

SXAN - Gamified human capital management to find, train, and place candidates into well-fitting companies

Achievements

• Planetary Prosperity (P3C, renamed to Commonwealth), 2018 - Defi on Ethereum Classic, ~$500k AUM

• T-Mobile (Consulting), 2019 - Reduced main site page-load from 37 seconds to 9

• BTC Hackathon Bangkok, 2024 - 1st place / Magus Lending

• Published Will o’ the Whisp, 2023 - scientific method applied to prompt engineering

Technologies

Javascript - 15 years (NodeJS/BunJS, VueJS, ReactJS) Solidity - 8 years (ERC 20, ERC 721, ERC 1155) Python - 10 years (Tensorflow, SciPy, NumPy) C++ - 10 years Rust - 4 years Bash - 15 years

Technical Experience

• AWS / Google Cloud - full IT capabilities for integration and deployment on cloud environments, including strong security expertise.
• Cursor / VS Code (vibe coding) with Copilot - strong methodologies for test-driven AI development
• Canva / Figma / Photoshop / Illustrator
• Bitwig (sound design and music production)
• Comsole (multiphysics software for mechanical engineering and 3d output)

Hobbies and Goals

• Nation State Infrastructure - building towards fully autonomous and decentralized government structures
• DJ/producer - underground electronic, beats, psy, progressive
• Go - Japanese turn-based strategy (also, taijitsu.. fafo)

Quotes

“​​Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness” - Sun Tsu “Live life as though everything is rigged in your favour.” - Rumi “To love is not to ask anything in return” - J Krishnamurti