Mark Ogilvie
Co-founder & Managing Director at SpecShaper
Tramore, Ireland
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Top SchoolMark Ogilvie is a co-founder and managing director who blends 11 years of entrepreneurial software leadership with a deep background as a chartered mechanical engineer. He founded Parolla, a GDPR-conscious, cloud payroll and HR platform integrated with Xero and tailored for Irish payroll and Revenue modernisation, and has hands-on experience building integrations and enhancing a popular Xero PHP library. Mark’s career spans global building-services delivery and senior engineering leadership roles, where he led multidisciplinary teams and developed sector-wide design tools and standards. He also runs specialist consulting and specification management ventures (Ogilvie Consulting and SpecShaper), reflecting a rare combination of technical product development, compliance-first SaaS design, and practical engineering expertise.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Senior Leadership Development Program, Senior Leadership Development Program at AGSM @ UNSW Business SchoolBachelor of Engineering (BEng) Mechanical, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Mechanical at University of CanterburyA bursary, A bursary at Middleton Grange School
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Github Skills (6)
php10
api10
lib10
xero-api10
apidoc10
object-oriented-programming9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
calcinai/xero-php
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
A php library for the Xero API, with a cleaner OAuth interface and ORM-like abstraction.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / API Developer
Back-end Developer / API DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 8 PRs, 21 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Mark made several contributions focused on enhancing the functionality of the Xero PHP library. Their work includes adding a 'Details' property to the Payment model, renaming a setter method in the Contact model, and implementing a PUT method for creating TaxRates. They also introduced organization classes, indicating a focus on expanding the library's capabilities and adhering to the Xero API's structure.
apiphpxerooauth2php-library
mogilvie/EncryptBundle
Oct 2017 - Jan 2023
Encryption bundle
Contributions:10 releases, 63 commits, 28 PRs in 5 years 3 months
bundleencryption
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