Mark Sheldon
Principal Product Manager - Business Verification
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolMark Sheldon is a Principal Product Manager with over 15 years’ experience delivering complex digital products from discovery to launch, currently leading Business Verification at Wise. He combines a technical engineering background with senior product leadership across media, government and SaaS, having built platforms that serve millions of users (BBC Audience Platform, GOV.UK publishing). Mark has launched zero-to-one products, migrated thousands of customers to new automation platforms at Intercom, and driven data export and interoperability features that generated significant ARR. A pragmatic, design-minded operator, he regularly coaches product and engineering teams and thrives on aligning executive stakeholders to measurable roadmaps. His open-source contributions include full-stack improvements to the high-profile alphagov/whitehall repo, reflecting hands-on UI and backend work for government publishing. Based in Stony Stratford, he blends delivery-focused instincts with a long track record of cross-disciplinary team building and scalable platform thinking.
13 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BEng (Hons) Computer System Engineering, BEng (Hons) Computer System Engineering at University of Kent
Github Skills (12)
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
erb10
backend9
front-end-development9
back-end-development9
html9
frontend8
datagovuk8
front8
web-frontend8
css7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Jun 2014 - Dec 2015
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 7 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the Whitehall repository by making changes related to content publishing and the user interface. They modified the application's views and helpers to update links to publishing guidance, correct formatting issues, and fix bookmarklets. Additionally, they reordered filters, updated file type configurations, and adjusted permissions for managing featured links and exporting editions. These changes reflect involvement in both frontend and backend aspects of the application.
govgovuk-publishing-frontendgovukgovernmentcontainer
alphagov/frontend
Nov 2012 - Jun 2015
Serves the homepage, transactions and some index pages on GOV.UK
Contributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 7 months
govruby-on-railsindexhotel-bookingmhealth
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.