Mario Behrendt
Director Of Engineering at KatKin
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorMario Behrendt is a Director of Engineering with 15+ years building and scaling high-impact e-commerce, SaaS and EdTech platforms across Europe. He has repeatedly grown engineering organizations (from single digits to ~70 engineers and up to 10x scale) while maintaining exceptional retention, engagement and diversity. His teams have delivered core billing and shipping modules powering up to 30% of European e-commerce shops and launched multi-market expansions and retail partnerships under his leadership. A pragmatic systems thinker, he published an early O’Reilly book on CI/CD and built a profitable business as a teenager that he later sold to private equity, showing entrepreneurial instincts alongside technical depth. He’s skilled at unifying product and factory engineering, cutting OPEX without harming velocity, and setting OKR-driven technology vision. Based in London, he combines hands-on delivery experience with executive-level strategy and operational rigor.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
English, German
Github Skills (54)
mongoose10
factory10
react-native9
ios9
android9
nodejs9
react9
mongodb9
csv-parsing9
cross-platform8
mobile7
fast-csv7
csv-reader7
elixir6
java6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
behrendtio/isbin
Dec 2012 - May 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push, 1 tag in 3 years 5 months
tinyadditionalhelper-librarylittle-helperdetermine
behrendtio/monky
Apr 2013 - May 2021
Mongoose fixtures library inspired by factory_girl
Contributions:100 commits, 9 PRs, 23 pushes in 8 years 1 month
girlfactoryfactory-girlnodejsmongoose
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