Mark Keating
Council Member, Director, Chair at North-West England Perl Mongers
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Keating is a versatile software and design professional with 14 years blending book and interface design, end-to-end software delivery, and small-business management. He leads open source and community organisations (FLOSSUK, Lancaster & Morecambe Makers, Perl user groups) and runs a consultancy focused on bespoke software, rapid distributed development, and adoption of open-source solutions. Experienced as a project and people manager, he bridges design, UX advisory, and technical implementation with particular insight into HR, marketing, and business development tooling. Comfortable in both creative and technical roles, he shapes workflows from typesetting to web deployment and prioritises business-specific environments. Beyond day-to-day delivery he actively promotes community collaboration and training, aiming to spark new projects that broaden open-source uptake. He aspires to a location-independent lifestyle—working from a laptop by the sea—reflecting his pragmatic pursuit of flexible, impact-driven work.
14 years of coding experience
BA (Hons), Literature, Education, 2:1 Joint Honours, BA (Hons), Literature, Education, 2:1 Joint Honours at St. Martin's CollegeA Levels, English Language, English Literature, A Levels, English Language, English Literature at Padgate College, Warrington
English
Github Skills (22)
network-tools10
monitoring10
5g10
citrix10
ocs10
aix10
collector10
java10
netflow10
yang10
snmp9
network-monitoring9
netconf9
perl8
foundation7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tpf/marketing-materials
Nov 2011 - Jul 2017
General Marketing Materials for Perl Foundation
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes in 5 years 9 months
marketingperlfoundation
Act-Conferences/lpw2016
Jun 2016 - Feb 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 24 pushes in 6 years 9 months
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