Mark Wickens
Contract Software Engineer at PeppercornAI
Cartmel Fell, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Wickens is a versatile contract software engineer and engineering manager with 25+ years of professional experience and 11 years focused on remote-first senior roles, currently building Conversational First™ insurance systems at PeppercornAI. He blends deep backend expertise in Java and Scala with modern frontend work in React and cloud platforms (GCP/Azure), having led scalable, secure platforms that process millions in premiums and nationwide legal services. As a Certified Scrum Master and former Senior Principal Engineer, he combines hands-on implementation with team leadership, automated document generation, and a strong security culture. Notable for being a sole developer on high-stakes integrations and for reengineering critical document and underwriting pipelines, he favors pragmatic, resilient architectures that reduce operational costs. Based in Cartmel Fell, UK, he’s equally comfortable shipping production-critical integrations as he is mentoring distributed teams and applying generative AI responsibly to accelerate product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, 1st Class with Honours, 2nd highest grade in year., Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, 1st Class with Honours, 2nd highest grade in year. at University of HertfordshireA Levels, Science, Technology, A Levels, Science, Technology at Manshead Upper School, Dunstable
English
Github Skills (34)
google-earth10
adif9
kml9
earth9
java-api9
maps8
api8
gis8
markup-language8
openlayers8
wfs8
geoserver8
image7
javascript7
visualize7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
urbancamo/javaapiforkml
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
The objective of the Java API for KML is to provide Java interfaces for easy access to KML (Keyhole Markup Language) data.
Contributions:3 releases, 9 commits, 7 PRs in 8 months
apiinterfaces-javamarkup-languagedata-languagemarkup
urbancamo/adif-processor
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
Visualize Amateur Radio Contacts in Google Earth
Contributions:3 releases, 370 commits, 212 PRs in 1 year 11 months
contactsamateurvisualizeearthamateur-radio
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