Mark Allan
Development Team Lead at Northern Ireland Developers Conference
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMark Allan is a Development Team Lead based in Belfast with over three decades of software experience and 11 years in senior roles, currently shaping enterprise security features at Gearset while still shipping code. He blends hands-on engineering with planning, design, and people leadership, and retains line management responsibility for his team. A Cambridge-trained mathematician, he has deep roots in .NET and Azure, running a freelance cloud consultancy and previously leading application modernisation practices. He founded the Northern Ireland Developers Conference, showing commitment to community building and developer education. Notably pragmatic, he balances legacy systems experience (dating back to BIOS and device drivers) with modern cloud architecture. Although mentoring and leadership are central now, he candidly signals that retirement is his next career move.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MA Hons, Mathematics, MA Hons, Mathematics at University of Cambridge
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Github Skills (46)
ecommerce-application9
xamarin-android9
xamarin-mac9
xamarin-ios9
azure-functions9
microsoft-graph-api9
microsoft-graph9
azure9
microsoft-teams9
xamarin-forms8
office3658
trainer7
commerce7
netcore6
cart6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MarkXA/meetup-aggregator
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:27 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
MarkXA/ddrmenutemplates
Jun 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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