Mark Lagendijk is a pragmatic Lead Developer with 11 years of experience building full-stack, cloud-native products and leading engineering teams from the Netherlands. He blends backend expertise (Kotlin/Spring, Go contributions) with frontend experience (Angular, AngularJS) and hands-on DevOps/CICD practice to deliver reliable SaaS platforms. As tech lead of a 10-person product team he shaped architecture and product vision for identity and backup solutions, while currently steering development at Fresh Publishers. An active open-source contributor, he implemented form serialization and HTTP interactions for the widely used k6 load-testing tool, showing attention to tooling and test automation. Mark treats languages and frameworks as pragmatic tools and is known for learning the right stack for the job and shipping quality with small, effective teams.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Informatica, Bachelor, Informatica at Haagse Hogeschool/TH Rijswijk
VWO, Profiel natuur & techniek met economie 1,2 als keuzevak, VWO, Profiel natuur & techniek met economie 1,2 als keuzevak at Guido de Brès
A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript - https://k6.io
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:44 commits, 8 PRs, 43 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the development of serialization methods for HTML form elements within the k6 load testing tool. Their work included implementing `SerializeArray`, `SerializeObject`, and `Serialize` functions, which enable the extraction and formatting of form data. The user also implemented the `SubmitForm` and `ClickLink` methods for the HTTP module, enhancing the tool's ability to interact with web forms. Furthermore, they addressed bugs and added tests to validate the newly implemented features.
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Mark Lagendijk - Lead Developer at Fresh Publishers