Mark Hershberger
Sales Specialist at Self-Employed
Orlando, Florida, United States
Summary
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SeniorMark Hershberger is a people-focused sales specialist and entrepreneur with 24 years of experience helping consumers and businesses find practical legal and identity-theft protection through LegalShield while building a residual-income retirement plan. Based in Orlando, he combines street-level sales and franchising experience with a long-running self-employed consulting practice that emphasizes solving real customer problems. Less obvious: he also contributes technical back-end fixes to major open-source projects like MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki, showing a knack for diagnosing legacy code, addressing PHP deprecations, and improving stability. That blend of client-facing sales savvy and hands-on technical problem solving makes him effective at translating complex services into accessible value propositions.
24 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (9)
debug10
mediawiki10
php10
semantic-mediawiki10
wikipedia10
database9
sql-query9
code-optimization9
databases9
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki
Sep 2012 - Jul 2022
đ Semantic MediaWiki turns MediaWiki into a knowledge management platform with query and export capabilities
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 75 commits, 59 PRs in 9 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Mark's contributions primarily involve modifying Semantic MediaWiki's codebase to address bug fixes and improve functionality. They have addressed issues related to compatibility with the MediaWiki installer by declaring global variables. Further work included adding variables to replace hard-coded upper bounds in queries and fixing a typo. Additionally, the user worked on fixing an issue related to database connections and file handling, along with refactoring the code by replacing deprecated functions and adjusting code for newer MediaWiki versions.
smwcollaborationmediawiki-extensionknowledge-graphsemantic-web
wikimedia/mediawiki
Mar 2012 - Jul 2022
đ» The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia. Mirror from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core. See https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:211 commits in 10 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on back-end improvements, demonstrating an understanding of the MediaWiki platform. Their contributions include modifying core files to address PHP deprecations and handling null values to prevent potential errors. The user also made adjustments to existing code to optimize functionality and fix bugs. These commits showcase their ability to work with the MediaWiki codebase and improve its stability.
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