Mark Woollard
Staff Engineer at Engine by Starling
Slough, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Woollard is a Staff Engineer based in Slough with 35+ years in software engineering and a concentrated 15-year focus on mobile and iOS platforms. He has led and scaled mobile teams and product suites as Head of Mobile and Principal Engineer, and now brings that experience to Engine by Starling after a career that includes founding and running niche product companies. Comfortable across C++, Objective-C/Swift, cross-platform tooling and backend integrations, he has repeatedly moved from hands-on development to technical leadership and back, shipping commercial products from Win32 servers to modern iOS apps. His background includes building and marketing successful self-funded products (Mailgate/PopWeasel) and evolving small startups through acquisition, showing both entrepreneurial drive and enterprise-grade engineering. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who pairs deep systems knowledge with a knack for turning complex integration problems into reliable, shipped software.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Wales, Cardiff
Github Skills (120)
cocoa10
menu10
cuckoo10
google-pay10
matcher10
rxswift10
reactive10
swift-package-manager10
functional10
observer10
payment10
swift10
reactive-programming10
apple-pay10
stripe-payments10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mwoollard/SwiftGooglePolyline
Feb 2016 - Jun 2022
Swift class extensions to encode/decode google coordinate polylines
Contributions:2 reviews, 6 commits, 5 PRs in 6 years 4 months
encodeextensionsswiftdecodepolyline
mwoollard/Dip
Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 months
dependenciesresolvedependency-injectionswiftios
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