Mads Hansen
Senior Principal Consultant at Progress MarkLogic
Oakton, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolMads Hansen is a Senior Principal Consultant and generalizing specialist with over two decades of programming and systems engineering experience, currently focused on reliability and performance for MarkLogic deployments. Based in Oakton, VA, he has led SRE and performance engineering for Internet-scale clusters—including a production MarkLogic cluster of 180+ servers—and built monitoring and incident-response tooling with Splunk and New Relic. His background blends deep XML/XQuery/XSLT expertise with Java, ETL (Pentaho Kettle), search technologies (Solr), and enterprise data architectures, having accelerated ETL throughput by 20x during major migrations. He has a long history supporting DoD and Intelligence Community systems, creating validated metadata pipelines, schematron rules, and automated content workflows across classified networks. Mads combines hands-on coding, architecture, and team leadership, and he’s comfortable working at the intersection of performance tuning, data modeling, and operational excellence. His MS from Johns Hopkins complements a career-long focus on making complex, mission-critical data systems both reliable and fast.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBS Integrated Science & Technology, BS Integrated Science & Technology at James Madison University
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Github Skills (109)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MarkLogic-Attic/xqsync
May 2017 - Sep 2023
XQSync is a command-line, Java-based tool, useful for synchronizing MarkLogic databases to and from other databases, filesystems, and zip-files.
Contributions:3 releases, 1 PR, 25 pushes in 6 years 5 months
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hansenmc/gatling-marklogic-xcc
Jan 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 5 months
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