I’m Mark, a developer/engineer working at Counter (why not join us?). I previously worked at Autotrader, where my projects included deployment automation, then a service that was responsible for releasing infrastructure and application changes to private cloud, and later developing an early careers pipeline of apprentices, graduates and career changers.
I’ve learnt a lot from others in my current role and from other people’s blogs, and want to pay it back by sharing here. I’m quite interested in the theoretical side of software and the working environment, especially areas such as Kanban, Scrum, TDD and BDD.
I’m also interested in software architecture and code design / code quality. I value the importance of naming, and the selection of the appropriate abstractions. Computer Science and my career as a developer has given me a fascination for language, and it’s relation with theoretical engineering. I’ve done my fair share of fault diagnostics, and have learn quite a lot of techniques this way. In the past I was involved in the culture of DevOps.
In my free time I am a member of The Manchester Proud Chorus (a queer choir), and enjoy dabbling with pottery. I volunteer for a queer charity, and also at at festivals such as Glastonbury, Latitude and Leeds Festival where I am usually an Oxfam Steward. I’ve a fascination with hidden secret things, which led me to build the Hidden Manchester Map.
You can contact me by email or connect on Linkedin. You can also follow me on Twitter. You can also read my Developer Story on Stack Overflow.