Mark Drake
Principal Solutions Architect, Owner at Next Player Up
Stephens City, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Drake is a Principal Solutions Architect and founder with 15 years of experience designing immersive, customer-centric web and mobile experiences from his Stephens City, VA base. He leads multidisciplinary teams to deliver Jamstack architectures, frontend design systems, and XR/MR/AR/VR research while bridging product, design, and engineering. A former Senior Frontend Engineer who built an award-winning design system adopted company-wide, he combines deep HTML/CSS/JS expertise with practical CMS and SharePoint know-how. His background includes military-grade IT and communications work in the U.S. Navy, giving him a disciplined approach to reliability and process improvement. Mark is as comfortable prototyping cutting-edge immersive experiences as he is operationalizing robust, standards-compliant front-end systems for enterprise clients.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer and Information Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer and Information Sciences, General at Capella UniversityGeneral Arts and Comp Sci, General Arts and Comp Sci at Lord Fairfax Community College
Github Skills (200)
icon-pack10
cms10
logos10
asp-net-core10
imagemin10
slideshow10
svg10
wysiwyg10
branding10
umbraco10
javascript10
jquery10
slide10
snap10
dotnet10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
markadrake/node-simple-html-includes
May 2017 - Oct 2019
Simple HTML templating package for Node, based on ASP.NET Razor syntax.
Contributions:1 PR, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
razortemplate-enginetemplatetemplatingasp
markadrake/humble-umbraco-starter-kit
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
(ironically) a highly opinionated starter kit for Umbraco 10+
Contributions:36 commits, 1 PR, 93 pushes in 10 months
umbracoumbraco-9umbraco-cms
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