Mark Koning
Managing Director Founder at IT Recruitment
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMark Koning is a seasoned founder and managing director with 13 years of experience building specialist IT recruitment and Python-focused software services in the Netherlands. He leads two companies—IT Recruitment and Python People—helping organizations source, train, and place high-caliber developers across PHP, Java, Python/Django, .NET and mobile platforms. Mark combines commercial leadership with hands-on technical sensibilities, having contributed full‑stack improvements to the notable Sharetribe open-source marketplace project, particularly around UI and configurable landing pages. His background spans recruitment management and earlier financial analysis, giving him a pragmatic, metrics-oriented approach to talent and delivery. Based in the Randstad, he’s known for aligning sector knowledge (finance, government, healthcare) with technical hiring to deliver fit-for-purpose teams quickly. Continuously investing in consultant development, he emphasizes long-term capability growth rather than short-term placements.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
marketplace10
go10
cross-platform10
platformsh10
multiplatform10
ruby9
rails9
configuration-management9
ruby-rails9
front-end-development8
function-pointers6
shell6
language-design6
programming-language6
bash6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sharetribe/sharetribe
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Sharetribe Go is Sharetribe's old source-available marketplace software, which was also available as a hosted SaaS product. Sharetribe Go is no longer actively maintained.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 25 days
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and improving the landing page functionality. They refactored icon mappings, updating the front-end UI with more appropriate and consistent icons. Additionally, they modified the application to allow configuration of the static landing page content via initializer files, moving away from direct code modifications and improving the development workflow. The user's contributions involved both front-end and back-end modifications.
golangmarketplaceapihostedno-code
madumlao/phpenv-installer
Aug 2018 - Jan 2022
Install phpenv & php-build and update all of them when you want to ...
Contributions:17 commits, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
phpphp81installerupdatephp7
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