Marcus Povey
Principal Software Engineer, Head Of IT at Instruct-ERIC
United Kingdom
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RockstarMarcus Povey is a Principal Software Engineer and Head of IT with 18 years’ experience building impactful systems for science, security, and media—from life-saving medical software and secure messaging to high-performance video platforms. At Instruct-ERIC he shapes architecture and strategy for pan-European structural biology services, leading microservice and GraphQL API development while representing projects across EOSC and other multi-national initiatives. He runs a successful consultancy and ISV, specialising in Elgg and Known platforms, with clients including KQED, Sophos and Minds.com, and co-founded the Known Open Collective. Marcus combines hands-on coding across PHP, JavaScript/Node, Java and Python with DevOps, identity (OAuth/OpenID Connect) and FAIR data practice expertise. An active open-source artisan and “bit wrangler,” he contributes to social web projects and champions Open Science—often presenting his work at international conferences. He’s a pragmatic technologist who pairs deep implementation experience with policy-level influence across research infrastructure.
17 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (200)
cms10
web-application10
twitter10
elgg10
social-networking10
social-media10
angular10
kubernetes10
cassandra10
mysql10
factor-authentication10
nostr10
connections10
pulsar10
php-mysql10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mapkyca/Elgg-Multisite
Apr 2010 - Nov 2020
Contributions:1 release, 259 commits, 1 PR in 10 years 9 months
codebasesitessupportingelgg
mapkyca/known-oauth2-server
Nov 2014 - Apr 2021
OAuth2 Server for Known
Contributions:120 commits, 2 PRs, 33 pushes in 6 years 6 months
oauth2oauth2-serveroauth
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