Mark Stephens
CEO at IDRsolutions
Tonbridge and Malling, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMark Stephens is the founder and long-standing CEO of IDRsolutions, a UK software company he established in 1999 that builds Java-based PDF viewing, printing, and extraction libraries for B2B clients. With over 11 years of documented experience and decades running the business, he combines product engineering, sales, and marketing leadership with hands-on involvement in development and hiring. He began by building extraction tools for newspapers and evolved the company into a niche provider of reliable Java PDF tooling, demonstrating deep domain expertise in document processing. Educated in history at the University of St Andrews, he brings a curious, strategic perspective to technical product decisions and company culture. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic operator who balances technical stewardship with day-to-day leadership responsibilities — from inspiring teams to the occasional nontechnical task like making the tea.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Arts - MA, HISTORY, Master of Arts - MA, HISTORY at University of St AndrewsLoughborough University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
pdf10
itext9
netbeans8
plugin7
jbake7
java6
objective-c6
pdf-generation6
thumbnails6
android6
pdfbox6
gdi6
ipad6
imageio6
apache5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pdf4j/pdf4j-jpedal
Jun 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:35 commits in 10 months
idrsolutions/jmh-jdeli
Nov 2019 - Mar 2021
Code to test performance of JDeli and other image libraries using jmh
Contributions:1 review, 35 commits, 29 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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