Mark Cottman-fields
Software Engineer at QCIF
Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolMark Cottman-fields is a seasoned software engineer based in Toowoomba, Australia, with 16 years delivering practical, data-driven solutions across research, museum, and academic environments. Currently at QCIF, he blends research-grade rigor from his PhD work with hands-on development experience gained at QUT and the Queensland Museum Network, tackling complex data and bioinformatics problems. He contributes to open source—most notably extending the popular Stardew Valley "Lookup Anything" mod to surface in-game recipe and building blueprint data—demonstrating an eye for user-focused features and data model design. Comfortable across back-end systems, web platforms and data parsing, he prioritizes making data work for people rather than against them. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who translates academic depth into maintainable production code.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of IT, Bachelor of IT at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
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Github Skills (18)
dotnet-core10
game-development10
csharp10
data-parsing9
architectures8
architecture8
i18n-node7
i18n-js7
i18next7
ruby-on-rails6
vbnet6
sql-server6
asp-net6
css6
winforms6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Pathoschild/StardewMods
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
Mods for Stardew Valley using SMAPI.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the "Lookup Anything" mod for Stardew Valley, focusing on extending its functionality to display information about in-game recipes. They added features to show recipes for items as an ingredient, and extended the data models to support construction recipes for buildings, displaying building information from blueprints. These changes involved modifications to existing code structures, data parsing and display logic, and I18n strings to support new recipe types.
stardewsmapipatreonspinemods
qcif/ecodata
Dec 2019 - Mar 2024
Data capture webservices supporting Biocollect and other apps
Contributions:15 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 3 months
data-capturesupportingwebservicesala
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