Mark Wotton
Founder at LambdaMechanic
Da Nang, Vietnam
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Wotton is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 21 years' experience building high-performance, large-scale distributed systems and databases, often implemented in Haskell. He has led engineering teams and startups—most recently founding LambdaMechanic—and previously scaled projects from an embedded OS for live events to a web crawler that profiled 160 million sites daily. Deep expertise in Haskell, PostgreSQL and performance optimization is paired with hands-on backend work (including significant test-driven contributions to the popular Yesod Haskell web framework). He blends product-minded engineering with operational experience, having run services that once strained major DNS providers and shipped production systems at companies like SimSpace and Bigcommerce. Based in Da Nang, Vietnam, he also offers consulting availability and a pragmatic talent for turning tricky distributed problems into reliable, testable systems.
21 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyUNSW Sydney
English, German, Latin, Vietnamese
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Github Skills (16)
web-framework10
yesod10
haskell10
testing10
exception-handling9
twitter-bootstrap9
waterline6
yii6
html6
css6
nodejs6
php6
javascript6
sailsjs6
font-awesome6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
yesodweb/yesod
Mar 2016 - Jun 2017
A RESTful Haskell web framework built on WAI.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 19 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the testing framework of the Yesod web framework. Their work involved implementing and refining test functionalities, including follow redirects and exception handling in tests. The contributions improved the testing capabilities of the framework, enhancing its robustness and user experience by providing better error messages. The user's commits show a focus on testing and test-driven development practices.
apirestfulhaskellframeworkwebframework
mwotton/hscmph
Apr 2016 - Dec 2021
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 5 years 8 months
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