Mark Hanna
Chief Technology Officer at Skvare
Garland, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Hanna is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer with over 17 years of hands-on web design and development experience and more than a decade in senior engineering roles. Based in Garland, TX, he combines deep PHP/Drupal and CiviCRM expertise with systems work—MySQL tuning, Linux sysadmin, Composer/Git workflows—and a track record of building testing and deployment pipelines. At Skvare he leads architecture, long-term maintenance of CiviCRM LTS, and is maintainer of key Drupal modules like CiviCRM Entity and a Tin Can/xAPI LRS, demonstrating both community leadership and practical open-source impact (notably contributions to the civicrm core test suite and API fixes). He frequently presents at CiviCon and local meetups, bridging developer, product, and client-facing roles from business analysis through training and support. Practical, community-minded, and curious, he blends engineering craft with process and tooling improvements that scale teams and platforms.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Texas A&MComputer Science, Computer Science at Amarillo College
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
unit-testing10
php10
api10
apidoc10
civicrm10
test-automation10
testing10
mysql9
sql8
git6
query-optimization6
bash6
grep6
postgresql6
gitignore6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
civicrm/civicrm-core
Oct 2016 - Apr 2019
CiviCRM (Core Application and Framework)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:1 review, 83 commits, 82 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the CiviCRM core by addressing bugs and enhancing the test suite. They focused on correcting issues in custom field queries, specifically related to string value handling. The user implemented and expanded unit tests, including coverage for custom field validations and API functionalities. They also modified API logic to handle state/province lookups based on country parameters.
civicrmcrm-platformdcode-2025nonprofit
eileenmcnaughton/civicrm_entity
Nov 2014 - Jan 2023
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Contributions:17 reviews, 500 commits, 505 PRs in 8 years 3 months
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