Mark Wales
Principal Engineer at CareScribe
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMark Wales is a Principal Engineer based in Bristol with 13 years of experience shaping clean architectures and refactoring legacy code to improve maintainability and delivery. At CareScribe he leads technical direction while remaining hands-on, drawing on a broad full-stack background from Laravel and React to JavaScript-heavy frontends and Haskell command-line tools. He has taught and directed curriculum development for junior developers, which informs his pragmatic approach to mentoring and code quality. An active open-source contributor, he built a Vty-based command-line Kanban/task manager that demonstrates his interest in tooling and UX even in purely terminal environments. His combination of philosophy and mathematics studies underpins a methodical, systems-oriented mindset for solving complex engineering problems.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, Philosophy, Master of Arts - MA, Philosophy at University of AberdeenMaster of Letters - MLitt, Philosophy, Master of Letters - MLitt, Philosophy at University of St AndrewsBachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at The Open University
Github Skills (5)
haskell10
json9
command-line-interface8
cli8
command-line8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
smallhadroncollider/taskell
Nov 2017 - Oct 2021
Command-line Kanban board/task manager with support for Trello boards and GitHub projects
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:58 releases, 1044 commits, 17 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Mark's contributions focused on building a command-line Kanban board/task manager. They implemented a rudimentary user interface using Vty to handle user interaction and display task information. Additionally, they added JSON file loading/saving capabilities, which likely involved backend logic for task management and data persistence.
task-boardmarkdownhaskellproject-planningkanban-board
smallhadroncollider/brok
Jan 2019 - Oct 2020
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Contributions:9 releases, 128 commits, 67 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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