Marcus Mason
Lead Software Developer at Vinewood Studios Ltd
Greater Cardiff Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMarcus Mason is a Lead Software Developer with 11+ years at NHS Wales Informatics Service, skilled at designing and delivering interoperable IT solutions that connect disparate clinical and business systems. He blends pragmatic engineering with a user-focused mindset, advocating simple, stable architectures and intuitive graphical interfaces that exceed user expectations. Marcus has deep experience across .NET stacks, database integration, and systems integration—work that includes liaising with clinicians and third-party suppliers to translate complex requirements into robust applications. He contributes to open-source projects such as a Volumio GPIO control plugin, reflecting hands-on back-end work that links software events to physical hardware. Beyond coding, he mentors junior developers and leads application development lifecycles, ensuring maintainability, testing, and operational stability. Based in the Greater Cardiff Area, he combines a practical, problem-solving ethos with a knack for making complex systems easier to use.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) (Hons), Computer Science, 2nd Class, Bachelor of Science (BSc) (Hons), Computer Science, 2nd Class at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddNVQ NEBSM Business Management, Pass, NVQ NEBSM Business Management, Pass at Perhsore Business School
English
Github Skills (9)
socket-io10
gpio10
nodejs10
socket10
javascript10
plugin10
socket-io-client10
configuration-management9
raspberry-pi8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
volumio/volumio-plugins-sources
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
Volumio plugins source code for Volumio 3
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:60 commits, 34 PRs, 37 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Marcus appears to be developing a plugin for the Volumio music player. The primary contribution involves implementing a GPIO control plugin, enabling the manipulation of GPIO pins based on Volumio events like music playback. The code includes the creation of GPIO objects, handling events, and writing to the GPIO pins to control external hardware. The plugin integrates with Volumio's socket.io interface for status updates and configuration management.
volumiopluginsplugin
supercrab/volumio-plugins-sources
Feb 2022 - Feb 2025
Volumio plugins source code for Volumio 3
Contributions:65 pushes in 3 years 1 month
volumiopluginsplugin
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