Mark Lee
Software Engineer at Caprica Software
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarMark Lee is a freelance full-stack software engineer with 17 years’ experience specialising in Enterprise Java and React/TypeScript applications, often acting as a hands-on Technical Lead for Agile projects. He delivers full project lifecycles—from requirements and bid prep through solution design, coding, and client handover—while mentoring teams and promoting developer-friendly workflows like Docker Compose for seamless local runs. Recently he helped an in-house team upskill from scratch into Go web services on Google Cloud, alongside React web and React Native mobile apps. A pragmatic problem-solver, he combines deep back-end expertise (including contributions to VLC’s core player APIs) with polished front-end delivery. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, he focuses on remote freelance roles outside IR35 and values continuous learning and practical, production-ready solutions.
17 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (21)
application-framework10
libvlc10
api-design10
video-processing10
app-framework10
c1110
c1710
multimedia10
web-framework10
lgpl9
java9
swing9
vlcj6
jax-rs6
media-player6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
videolan/vlc
Apr 2020 - May 2022
VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please use MRs on https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributes to the VLC media player's core functionality, focusing on libvlc and player-related APIs. Their work includes adding new APIs for subtitle text scaling and explicitly setting A-B loop functionality by time/position. They also fixed a bug related to chapter descriptions. The commits show direct interaction with the player's internal structure and media playback logic.
gplv2libvlcfollowframeworkvlc
caprica/stringy
Feb 2020 - Aug 2024
Example Spring Boot microservices project.
Contributions:3 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 6 months
spring-bootspring-boot-microservicesspringspring-boot-examplemicroservices
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