MarkĀ Charles
Senior Back-End Developer at Parkopedia
Ashford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMark Charles is a Senior Back-End Developer with 11 years of experience building scalable, performance-focused systems using Ruby and Python and deploying them on AWS. Currently at Parkopedia, he has a track record of architecting and optimising cloud-native services across startups and product teams, including multi-role stints at Wineapp, Strax Systems and Crazy Pony Labs. He combines backend engineering depth with a history in mobile and web development, which gives him a pragmatic view of end-to-end product constraints and client-facing performance needs. Known for improving reliability and reducing operational costs through careful code and infrastructure optimisation, he thrives in cross-functional teams delivering projects on time and within budget. Based in Ashford, England, he pairs a formal Computer Science education from The Open University with hands-on production experience and a quiet appetite for solving tricky scalability problems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at The Open University
English
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kotlin
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ruby-on-rails
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Github Skills (95)
android-jetpack-compose10
number-picker10
android-widget10
android10
obsidian10
shader9
surface-duo9
camera9
ruby-on-rails9
android-development9
kotlin9
android-recyclerview9
qualcomm9
android-sdk9
angularjs9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
veritas1/game-of-life
Jun 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
veritas1/tinytextstyler
May 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:15 commits, 5 pushes in 7 days
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