Mark Nightingale
Chief Product Officer at Freelance
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolMark Nightingale is a multilingual product and strategy leader with 12 years' experience building and scaling digital platforms, currently serving as Chief Product Officer at OCCRP where he leads data-, AI-, and growth-oriented products used by journalists and institutions worldwide. He has a hands-on technical background—founding OCCRP’s in-house web team, acting as technical lead on PHP/JS projects, and delivering 30+ multilingual sites as a freelance full-stack developer. Adept at aligning editorial, technical and donor stakeholders, he combines human-centred design with infrastructure scaling to solve complex systems problems. He teaches project management and web development at the University of Strasbourg, bringing academic rigour and bilingual instruction (English/French) into his practice. Known for building teams and processes from scratch, he introduced agile workflows that transformed OCCRP’s digital capability into a full product organisation. He cares deeply about usable, ethical technology and has a track record of shipping impactful, real-world products across Europe and beyond.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Foreign Languages and Literatures, General, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Foreign Languages and Literatures, General at University of BathMaster CAWEB, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, Distinction, Master CAWEB, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, Distinction at Master CAWEB
English, French, Italian, German, Chinese, Russian
Github Skills (28)
gridsome-plugin8
wordpress-plugin5
wordpress5
python5
bootstrap5
bootswatch4
journalism4
react4
graph-database4
javascript3
image3
gridsome3
java3
mysql2
css1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
markjohnnightingale/mn-utility-plugin
Jan 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:1 release, 74 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 7 months
wordpresswordpress-pluginwordpress-development
markjohnnightingale/lockacademy-theme
Mar 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:223 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 1 month
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