Mark Parnell
Senior Web Developer at Heartburst
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolMark Parnell is a Senior Web Developer based in Sydney with 11 years of professional experience building custom, accessible web solutions and integrations for not-for-profits and enterprise clients. He specializes in bespoke WordPress themes and plugins, CRM and payment gateway integrations, and long-term site stewardship rather than one-off deliveries. Mark has progressed from hands-on PHP and full-stack work to senior roles leading delivery and sponsorship efforts at WordCamp Sydney, and now serves as Senior Web Developer at Heartburst. His background includes scaling high-traffic sites, shipping SaaS e-learning platforms, and creating client-specific mobile apps and build systems—skills that bridge product, operations and client-facing strategy. Known to colleagues as a pragmatic "Web Wizard," he combines deep technical craft with a focus on usability and measurable impact for resource-constrained organisations.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate IV, Digital Production and Multimedia, Certificate IV, Digital Production and Multimedia at JMC Academy, Surry HillsHSC, HSC at John Wycliffe Christian SchoolBachelor, Information Technology, Bachelor, Information Technology at Charles Sturt University
English
Stackoverflow
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130answers
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Github Skills (44)
wordpress10
branches10
wordpress-plugin10
ios9
jquery9
youtube9
css9
php9
trac9
html9
jquery-ui9
subversion7
css-float6
fopen6
prototyping6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BrownBox/bbconnect-relationships
Aug 2017 - May 2023
Contributions:9 releases, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
BrownBox/bb-cart
Jul 2016 - Mar 2025
Contributions:54 releases, 61 pushes, 58 tags in 8 years 9 months
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