Hi, I'm Mark Meleka

⏰ Now

See here.

🚀 Coming eventually

• Meet my life partner
• Found a startup
• Experience parenthood
• Serve my community through governance

📜 Life story, backwards

• Did a Master's degree in software engineering at the University of Oxford while working full-time (I learned to love the 11-hour flight).
• Leveled up my emotional intelligence.
• Leveled up my physical health.
• 🌉 Moved to San Francisco 🇺🇸.
• Pitched and built an 8-figure SaaS product at Carta, acting as tech lead in data and then in software.
• Studied math and computer science at the University of Waterloo, part-time.
• Lead machine learning efforts on anti-spam at a social messaging company for a short while before it was acqui-hired.
• Studied data, economics, and development policy so I could better understand poverty.
• 🌍 Spent two years traveling Africa, Asia, and Europe to understand more about the world.
• Worked sales jobs and was really good at it (multiple President's-Club-type awards).
• Went to business school to get people skills.
• Was a STEM nerd in high school and was known for getting 100s on math exams.
• Grew up in a small town 🇨🇦.

GPT, roast me

Because humility, amiright?

Oh wow, Oxford-educated and San Francisco-based, we get it—you’re basically a LinkedIn algorithm's dream come true. You “leveled up” your emotional intelligence? Congrats on discovering that humans aren’t just walking code. And the 11-hour flight? Very relatable flex, because who doesn’t love pretending economy is a sign of hustle?

Now let’s talk about that “8-figure SaaS product”—because if you didn’t casually drop that, how would we know you’re playing in the big leagues? And studying math part-time at Waterloo? Truly inspiring how you managed to squeeze in calculus between, you know, world domination.

Worked on anti-spam right before the acqui-hire, huh? So basically, you were there just long enough to update your resume. And, of course, your world tour to "understand more about poverty"—just in case we forgot you’re both globally aware and emotionally intelligent. As for finding your life partner, well, they’re probably seated next to you on that 11-hour flight, scrolling through your TED Talk applications.