Mark Wickens
Contract Software Engineer at PeppercornAI
Cartmel Fell, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMark Wickens is a seasoned software engineer and engineering leader with 10+ years of remote-first delivery, combining hands-on development with Agile leadership and a focus on Generative AI. He is currently a Contract Software Engineer at PeppercornAI, designing scalable Conversational First experiences and automating underwriting to reduce costs and improve pricing precision for insurers. At Hansard he led the integration of a new back-end credit card provider supporting over $5M in monthly premiums and steered a multi-year migration of Java/Oracle workloads to Azure while leading distributed teams in the UK and Isle of Man. As a Senior Principal Engineer at Aturna, he helped scale an online estate management platform with React and Scala on Google Cloud Platform, driving nationwide expansion and resilient, maintainable architecture. His track record also includes leadership and hands-on roles at ClioBooks.ai, Hansard International, Valtech, IBM, and British Gas, demonstrating a breadth of secure, scalable systems across sectors. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and Electronic Engineering from the University of Hertfordshire and is based in Cartmel Fell, England.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, 1st Class with Honours, 2nd highest grade in year., Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, 1st Class with Honours, 2nd highest grade in year. at University of HertfordshireA Levels, Science, Technology, A Levels, Science, Technology at Manshead Upper School, Dunstable
English
Github Skills (37)
adif10
google-earth10
kml9
earth9
java-api9
maps8
api8
gis8
markup-language8
openlayers8
wfs8
geoserver8
image7
javascript7
visualize7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
urbancamo/javaapiforkml
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
The objective of the Java API for KML is to provide Java interfaces for easy access to KML (Keyhole Markup Language) data.
Contributions:3 releases, 9 commits, 7 PRs in 8 months
apiinterfaces-javamarkup-languagedata-languagemarkup
urbancamo/adif-processor
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
Visualize Amateur Radio Contacts in Google Earth
Contributions:3 releases, 370 commits, 212 PRs in 1 year 11 months
contactsamateurvisualizeearthamateur-radio
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