Mark Knight
Technical Lead at Recast
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMark Knight is a Technical Lead with 11 years of experience designing and delivering reliable, high-value web platforms from Glasgow, UK. He has led multiple teams of 6–7 engineers to ship customer-facing features like live chat, embeds, rewards and dynamic theming while driving adoption of TypeScript, Jest/Cypress testing and Nx mono-repos to improve developer experience and code quality. Mark blends hands-on engineering with people-first leadership—creating guilds, mentoring engineers, and tightening collaboration between product, design and engineering. He has migrated legacy .NET systems to modern .NET Core and SPA architectures, introduced Angular micro-frontends, and implemented OAuth/OIDC flows in Azure B2B/B2C for secure integrations. Notably, his background in aerospace engineering informs a disciplined, risk-based approach to technical change and test-driven delivery. He favors pragmatic tooling and process improvements that shorten lead time and increase deployment frequency while keeping quality high.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at University of Glasgow
English, Italian
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Github Skills (61)
angular10
microsoft10
microsoft-azure10
angular-cli10
azure10
cli10
typescript9
scratchpad9
ts-node-dev9
axios8
internet-explorer6
vscode6
nodejs6
observable6
polyfills6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
markfknight/ts-webpack-starter
Aug 2017 - Jun 2021
Contributions:17 PRs, 21 pushes, 18 branches in 3 years 10 months
typescriptwebpack4
markfknight/monokai-operator
May 2019 - Jul 2021
Monokai Operator Theme for VS Code
Contributions:13 commits, 15 PRs, 38 pushes in 2 years 1 month
vscodevscode-extensionoperatorvs-codemonokai
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