Mark Gaze
Expert Developer at OptumUK
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMark Gaze is an expert developer with nine years of focused experience in front-end engineering, test automation, and DevOps, currently shaping UI components and delivery practices at OptumUK (formerly EMIS Health). He champions test-first methodologies (TDD/BDD) and has a track record of building consolidated automation frameworks that enable teams to shift effort from regression checks to feature delivery. Equally comfortable in React-driven UI work and infrastructure in AWS/Netlify, he pairs hands-on coding with mentoring, having run workshops and tutored colleagues in C#, SpecFlow, and testing best practices. His career began in technical testing and evolved through building deployment systems and inter-process messaging for critical enterprise healthcare software, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability and clinical safety. Outside engineering he’s a front-end specialist who also coaches American Football, a sign of his coaching mindset and team-first leadership.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computing (Visualisation) Computer Science, Computing (Visualisation) Computer Science at Sheffield Hallam UniversityComputing Mathematics Physics and Geology, Computing Mathematics Physics and Geology at Thomas Rotherham College
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Github Skills (200)
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starlight10
architecture10
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browser10
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static-site-generator10
server10
linux9
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minifier9
home-automation9
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
somedevsdo/blog
May 2021 - Sep 2022
The beginnings of a new era
Contributions:44 reviews, 102 commits, 44 PRs in 1 year 3 months
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markgaze/dotfiles
Jun 2018 - Sep 2021
Configuration files
Contributions:33 PRs, 137 pushes, 37 branches in 3 years 3 months
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