Mark French
Engineering leader specializing in backend and fintech payments
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
Fintech founder and payments engineer: co-founded Armor Payments to provide escrow-as-a-service for B2B marketplaces and served as CTO; the company was acquired by Payoneer and its escrow technology was integrated into Payoneer's offering. coinspeaker+2
Experienced backend engineering leader: focuses on business logic modeling, ORMs, authentication, security, and scalability; currently leads engineering for finance systems at SeatGeek where he translates complex requirements into reliable systems. getprog+1
Active open-source contributor and tooling author: maintains and contributes to developer libraries and utilities (e.g., country-select-js, armor_payments_ruby, mysql-converter) to support integrations and developer workflows. github+2
Local tech presence and communicator: based in Durham, North Carolina, shares technical and personal content across professional and social profiles (LinkedIn, GitHub, YouTube, Twitter/Nitter). getprog+1