Chris Marks
Senior Software Engineer at Xero
Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Marks is a Senior Software Engineer based in Northern Ireland with over a decade of commercial experience delivering full lifecycle web and enterprise software across startup and consultancy environments. He brings hands-on expertise in modern full‑stack JavaScript (MERN/MEAN), React/Next.js, Node and Java Spring Boot, alongside deep legacy-to-modern migration work using .NET, C# and SQL across blue‑chip clients. Comfortable in both delivery and client-facing principal consultant roles, he has shaped designs that balance manageability, supportability and troubleshooting to influence commercial outcomes. Now at Xero after seven years leading diverse projects at PA Consulting, he blends pragmatic engineering with product-aware thinking and a track record of shipping reliable, testable systems. A background in interaction design and early experience building WordPress sites give him a strong user-centred lens that informs scalable technical decisions.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Interactive Multimedia Design, Interaction Design, Web Design, Web Development, Interactive Multimedia Design, Interaction Design, Web Design, Web Development at Ulster UniversityHND, Mechanical Enginnering, HND, Mechanical Enginnering at SERC
Github Skills (10)
hdr10
gateway9
api8
kong-plugin7
kong6
api-gateway6
react2
validation2
json2
ajv2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
HDRUK/Winterfell
Jun 2020 - May 2021
Generate complex, validated and extendable JSON-based forms in React.
Contributions:27 PRs, 126 pushes, 14 branches in 11 months
ajvreactvalidationextendablevalidated
HDRUK/gateway-web
May 2020 - Jun 2021
HDR UK Gateway Web
Contributions:163 reviews, 335 commits, 107 PRs in 1 year
hdr-ukhdrukgatewayhdrhdruk-gateway
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