Mark Overmeer
Founder at Skrodon
Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMark Overmeer is a veteran software engineer and founder with over four decades of programming experience and 24 years in professional roles, combining deep UNIX/Linux sysadmin expertise with systems-level programming in Perl and C. He leads Skrodon to build open infrastructure for public search engines and previously ran MARKOV Solutions as a freelance developer handling complex, often bespoke, infrastructures. A long-time open-source advocate and prolific CPAN contributor, he also designs XML schemas, SOAP/WSDL interfaces and wrestles with software pathology in mission-critical environments. His background includes implementing core internet services for the .nl TLD and maintaining a security-advisory system for Dutch critical infrastructure, reflecting a knack for trustworthy, resilient tooling. Based in Arnhem, he prefers tackling problems that commercial teams avoid, favouring open solutions and practical engineering over hype.
24 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
primary school, primary school at Emmausschool (merged into De Zyp)MSc Computing Science, MSc Computing Science at Radboud Universitysecondary school VWO, secondary school VWO at KGL Arnhem (merged into Beekdal Lyceum)
English, Dutch, German
Stackoverflow
576reputation
3kreached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (75)
perl10
geopandas9
mime-types9
proj9
nim-lang9
xml9
exceptions9
cpan9
mime-message9
mailbox8
solr8
h38
xsd8
soap8
xml-schema8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gitpan/BPM-XPDL
Jul 2009 - Sep 2014
Contributions:5 commits in 5 years 2 months
markov2/perl5-Hash-Case
Jan 2018 - Feb 2026
Contributions:11 releases, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 2 months
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