Mark Hanson
West Linn, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarMark Hanson is a seasoned software developer with nine years of commercial experience building and leading teams on concurrent projects. Based in West Linn, Oregon, he excels in systems design, problem solving, and cross-functional collaboration, comfortably switching between hands-on development and technical leadership. He has a track record of improving reliability in distributed systems, including contributions to the high-profile Apache Geode project where he fixed flaky tests, addressed threadpool leaks, and enhanced logging to aid failure analysis. Known for clear communication and pragmatic vision, he helps teams turn complex requirements into maintainable solutions. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful architecture and for shepherding work across local and remote collaborators. Beyond shipping features, he focuses on eliminating subtle operational issues that boost long-term system resilience.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
javas10
distributed-systems10
geode10
java10
concurrency10
testing10
multithreading9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/geode
May 2018 - May 2022
Apache Geode
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:472 reviews, 119 commits, 253 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Mark contributed to the Apache Geode project by addressing various issues related to the core and testing aspects of the distributed data grid system. Their work included removing a "flaky" flag from a test case, repairing a threadpool leak by ensuring proper shutdown, and adding additional logging to improve failure analysis. They also fixed a timeout issue in a flaky test and made code restructurings and cleanup to isolate failures better.
accumuloapachenetwork-serverdatagridjava
mhansonp/geode-native
Mar 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:119 pushes, 81 branches, 1 tag in 10 months
javaapachegeodenative-components
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