Mark Vanlandingham
Engineering Manager at Discourse
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
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Top SchoolMark Vanlandingham is an engineering manager with eight years of hands-on experience building and leading back-end teams, currently guiding engineering at Discourse. He began as a back-end Ruby developer on the widely used Discourse open-source forum platform, contributing features like group navigation data explorer support, vote-count updates, chat notification options, and various refactors to improve clarity and performance. Mark combines day-to-day development fluency with people leadership, having progressed from senior engineer roles into management while remaining active in the codebase. Based in Lawrence, Kansas, he has a practical computer science background from the University of Kansas and a track record of shipping maintainable server-side solutions for community-focused products. Notably, he moves between shipping bug fixes and designing feature improvements, which helps him bridge tactical delivery and longer-term platform health.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
Stackoverflow
101reputation
70kreached
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Github Skills (10)
notification10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
discourse10
ruby10
api9
webhooks8
database-design8
homebrew6
passwords6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
discourse/discourse
Sep 2019 - Apr 2022
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:343 reviews, 263 commits, 827 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to back-end features and bug fixes within the Discourse platform. Their work included implementing data explorer support in group navigation, updating user vote counts, adding options for chat notifications, refining post-action functionalities, adjusting the behavior of the notifications and related features, and refactoring aspects of the existing code to improve efficiency or clarify explanations. They worked with server-side Ruby and related back-end concepts.
discourserailsforumjavascriptruby
markvanlan/discourse
Oct 2019 - Oct 2021
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Contributions:297 commits, 1 PR, 547 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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