Mark Whitfeld
Founder And Lead Consultant at VulaDev (Pty) Ltd
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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Top SchoolMark Whitfeld is a founder and lead consultant with 11 years of software engineering experience, blending hands-on development with client-facing delivery and technical leadership. Based in Durban, he has led cloud engineering and backend orchestration efforts for startups (notably CRFT through acquisition), served as a senior engineer at StackBlitz, and founded VulaDev to provide consulting and training. A committed advocate of Software Craftsmanship, TDD, Clean Code and Agile practices, he has run training courses and led the NGXS open-source project, reflecting a focus on maintainable front-end architectures. He combines startup pragmatism with enterprise delivery experience, often translating complex requirements into testable, production-ready solutions. An unusual strength is his dual role as both an educator and practitioner—coaching teams while still shipping code across cloud and client projects.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Maritzburg CollegeUniversity of South AfricaBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Software Engineering at University of KwaZulu-Natal / University of Natal
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
nx-workspace10
firebase-hosting10
figma10
nodejs10
desktop10
workspaces10
previews10
windows10
cqrs10
stackblitz10
yarn-workspaces10
angular-universal10
color-picker10
build-system10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
markwhitfeld/store
Apr 2018 - Sep 2020
🚀 NGXS - State Management for Angular
Contributions:61 pushes, 106 branches in 2 years 5 months
state-managementrxjsngrxangular2angular
markwhitfeld/StatelessWorkflowSample
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:21 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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