Mark Dixon
Staff Software Engineer Team Lead At Neo4j
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMark Dixon is a pragmatic Staff Software Engineer and team lead at Neo4j with 11+ years of experience delivering scalable, event-driven systems across finance, media and government. He combines hands-on development in JVM ecosystems (Scala/Java) with cloud-native patterns—having migrated low-latency recommendation services to AWS and built fraud-detection pipelines on Splunk/Scala microservices. Comfortable leading distributed teams across time zones, he has a track record of driving migrations and capacity improvements (e.g., identity and email platform moves at Sky) while fostering agile practices like pair programming and TDD. A first-class Computer Science graduate, he also spent years as a contractor and director, which honed his ability to translate complex legacy systems into maintainable, cloud-hosted architectures. An understated strength is his balance of engineering craftsmanship and operational pragmatism: he prioritises measurable reliability and developer productivity when shaping platforms.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc(Hons) (1st Class), Computer Science, Bsc(Hons) (1st Class), Computer Science at University of Kent
Github Skills (146)
graph-algorithms10
graph-database10
specification10
apoc10
property-graph10
nosql10
neo4j10
cypher10
wayland10
developer-tools10
database10
neo4j-plugin10
graph-drawing10
graph10
build-system10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
mnd999/freebsd-ports
Oct 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:116 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 2 months
portsfreebsdfreebsd-ports
mnd999/openCypher
Jan 2021 - May 2024
Specification of the Cypher property graph query language
Contributions:22 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 4 months
cypherproperty-graphquery-language
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