Mark Menard
President at Enable Labs / Vita Rara Inc.
City of Troy, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Menard is a seasoned software entrepreneur and president of Enable Labs with 17+ years building dynamic web applications and bringing startup products to market. He combines hands-on expertise in Ruby on Rails, Groovy, JRuby and Java EE with a steady track record of architecting e-commerce, logistics, and supply-chain systems. As a long-time proponent of Open Source and Libre technologies, he mentors developers and champions test-driven, agile delivery—evidenced by practical contributions to Ruby testing tooling like fakeweb. He has led technical teams from CTO and director roles through rapid launches (including a 5,000-product ecommerce rollout) and ongoing consulting engagements. Based in Troy, NY, he blends operations-level business experience with deep server and Linux architecture skills, making him equally fluent in product strategy and implementation. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who prefers solving real-world logistics and commerce problems with elegant engineering.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (6)
ruby10
nethttp10
http10
test-automation10
testing10
http-header9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chrisk/fakeweb
Jan 2009 - Jan 2009
Ruby test helper for injecting fake responses to web requests
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on improving the test suite and ensuring the quality of the `fakeweb` library. They addressed issues related to HTTP header handling, specifically `transfer-encoding`. Their contributions included adding new tests to cover specific scenarios, such as requests lacking transfer-encoding headers. The user also corrected a newline issue within the library's response generation, resolving a bug that was causing failures.
testingmockrubytest-helper
MarkMenard/attr_immutable
Sep 2011 - Mar 2013
Contributions:7 commits in 1 year 6 months
protectedrailsrubyimmutableprotected-attributes
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