Mark Heath
Broadcast Engineer at Nine Entertainment Co.
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolMark Heath is a broadcast and systems engineer with 17 years of hands-on experience designing and troubleshooting complex, multi-platform infrastructure across broadcast, telecom and media environments. A "bottom-up" thinker shaped by early C64/Amiga hacking and formal Unix training, he specializes in reverse-engineering systems and building pragmatic tooling—from FreeBSD LAMP stacks and Objective-C/Java utilities to a C# Windows Service that navigated Session 0 and Win32 security intricacies. At Nine Entertainment he applies deep systems knowledge to diagnose multi-layered problems in live broadcast operations, drawing on prior roles at Telstra, Netspace and video post houses. Mark pairs a Unix-native engineering discipline with a creative practice (algorithmic music and fiction), bringing a designer’s eye for emergent simplicity to both technical and narrative systems. An operator who prototypes to learn, he excels at exposing and manipulating underlying object models—PDFs, PostScript and protocol stacks—to deliver reliable, auditable solutions.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science, Computer Science at RMIT University
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Github Skills (73)
reader10
backup10
portal10
deduplication9
go9
editing9
macos9
software-update8
mjpeg8
mac-app-store8
windows-subsystem-for-linux8
video-editing8
fonts8
opentype8
pdf-document7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
silicontrip/SkyReader
Jan 2013 - Jan 2021
A Skylander portal reader/editor/writer for OSX.
Contributions:42 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 8 years 1 month
writer-editorosxportalreaderwriter
silicontrip/pdftracer
Nov 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:166 commits, 54 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
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