Mark R
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Sitecore
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolMark R is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in Dublin with 12 years of experience leading teams that build large-scale, cloud-native systems. He progressed from hands-on engineering in Big Data and distributed systems—working with Cassandra, Spark, Kafka, Elasticsearch and Dropwizard—to management roles at Boxever and Sitecore, where he now drives delivery and engineering direction. Mark combines a strong Java/ backend engineering pedigree with practical AWS experience and a track record of improving reliability and developer experience. He is an active open-source contributor to Dropwizard, where his work improved configuration error handling and documentation—an indication of his attention to resilience and clear operational feedback. Known for coaching technical teams through complex migrations and production challenges, he pairs pragmatic engineering with people leadership to ship maintainable systems.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc. (Honours) in Software Development Computer Science, Bsc. (Honours) in Software Development Computer Science at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology
Github Skills (10)
dropwizard10
javas10
configuration-management10
java10
testing10
webservice9
documentation9
restful9
rest-services9
yaml8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dropwizard/dropwizard
Dec 2014 - May 2015
A damn simple library for building production-ready RESTful web services.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 5 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the Dropwizard project by enhancing the error messaging and handling of configuration files. Their work involved modifying the configuration parsing process to provide more informative error messages when empty or invalid configuration files are encountered. Additionally, they made improvements to the project's documentation, fixing spelling errors and formatting inconsistencies across various files. These modifications included improvements in documentation and formatting for the project.
production-readyweb-services-restfulrestful-webservicesjax-rsproduction
markreddy/flink
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:18 pushes, 6 branches in 11 days
flinkapachebig-dataapache-flinkjava
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