Mark Mcever
Application Developer
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolMark Mcever is an experienced full-stack application developer with 11 years building robust, maintainable systems across Java, PHP, mobile, and web platforms. Currently at Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, he excels at refactoring legacy codebases and translating complex requirements into long-lived solutions delivered faster than peers. His background includes enterprise mortgage systems and high-profile mobile projects (Associated Press, Barnes & Noble, Dropbox), and he has contributed backend improvements to the widely used PHP static analysis tool Psalm, strengthening taint analysis and type handling. Based in Nashville, he prioritizes clear upfront requirements and quality engineering practices, and he also brings hands-on experience with build and release tooling from administering Bamboo and Crucible. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic design choices that reduce long-term technical debt while keeping delivery timelines on track.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Tennessee Technological University
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Github Skills (12)
php10
static-analysis10
taint10
security9
security-scan9
security-testing9
sql8
hl7-fhir6
introspection6
mocking6
phpunit6
visibility6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
vimeo/psalm
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
A static analysis tool for finding errors in PHP applications
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 13 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Mark focused on enhancing the functionality and robustness of the PHP static analysis tool, Psalm. Their work involved addressing warnings related to `filter_var()` usage, specifically optimizing the handling of primitive types. Further contributions include refining taint analysis by ensuring that only SQL-related taints were escaped by database functions and expanding taint analysis coverage for `urlencode()`. Finally, they contributed to refactoring aspects related to attribute handling within the project.
security-analysisfindingphptaint-analysisphp-applications
vanderbilt-redcap/datacore-customizations
Dec 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 44 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 2 months
redcapredcap-external-module
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