Mark Lewis
Founder at Obsessive Ventures
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Lewis is a founder and eCommerce technologist with 12 years of experience building and scaling Shopify, Magento and BigCommerce sites from Miami. As CEO of Netalico Commerce he leads platform migrations, UX-driven growth and SEO-optimized engineering for SMBs while maintaining hands-on expertise in secure backend development. He contributes security fixes to high-profile open-source projects like OpenMage (addressing XSS and RCE vectors and improving cookie handling), reflecting deep practical knowledge of web application security. Beyond agency leadership he operates at the intersection of venture and product as a managing partner and angel investor, backing companies from SpaceX to Databricks and helping founders launch mission-driven startups. Trained in business and technology (BBA and Wharton MBA), he blends entrepreneurial strategy with gritty, code-first problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration, Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Business Administration, Computer Information Systems at Campbell University, Lundy-Fetterman School of BusinessMBA, MBA at The Wharton School
English
Github Skills (10)
debug10
php10
sql10
magento10
ecommerce10
security10
cookie9
input-validation9
composer8
phpmyadmin6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
OpenMage/magento-lts
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Official OpenMage LTS codebase | Migrate easily from Magento Community Edition in minutes! Download the source code for free or contribute to OpenMage LTS | Security vulnerability patches, bug fixes, performance improvements and more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 27 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Mark's contributions primarily focused on security enhancements and bug fixes within the Magento codebase. They addressed critical vulnerabilities, including cross-site scripting (XSS) and remote code execution (RCE) exploits, by implementing input validation and output encoding. The user also made improvements to the cookie handling and added same-site attributes to address security concerns. Their work demonstrates a strong understanding of web application security and its practical application within the e-commerce framework.
openmageecommerceshopwaresecurity-vulnerabilitycomposer
Mage1-Security-Edition/Mage1SE
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:1 commit, 1 branch, 7 comments in 1 day
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