Mark Beukers

Employment History

Leading development of Lichworks, an automation RTS built in C# on FNA with a custom ECS architecture enforced by Roslyn analyzers
A deliberate stress test of AI-native development: near-100% of the engine is agent-written, sustaining 50k+ active entities at 60fps
Deterministic lockstep multiplayer co-op with drop-in/drop-out play, headless dedicated servers, replay recording and desync detection
Shipping cross-platform Linux/Windows/Mac builds to Steam and itch.io

Overhauled backend and frontend CI pipelines, cutting commit-to-completed runs from 15+ minutes to under 5
Designed and deployed a FluxCD-managed (GitOps) Kubernetes cluster on AWS for internal development environments
Improved database performance and uplifted observability practices and systems

Led development on npm Widget SDKs for multiple frameworks including automated testing
Refactored and upgraded existing web extension to support Manifest V3
Developed and deployed new Node.js REST API
Feature development and modernisation work on existing PHP/Backbone stack

Led frontend efforts to modernise a legacy django2/grunt/jquery stack
Python development on the custom Django 2 fork, supporting its migration alongside CI improvements
Achieved more than 20x reductions in total FE size and vastly improved search traffic
Designed and implemented a Docker Swarm architecture to handle deployments from local to production

Originally building and founding mediapress.io (now sizle.io)
Working closely with the CEO to design and develop features for a new and developing product
Full stack development (AWS/Node.js/Express/Docker/React/Hasura)

Led client solutions frontend development using React/Redux/GraphQL to create custom iOS, Android and web apps
Agile based storybook driven development for open source up-streaming of components

Developing bespoke client solutions for AusPost/AGN/BHP/Jetstar built on top of Sitefinity and Sharepoint
Designed and integrated frontend workflow for a team of 20 to enable low weight JS frontends
Developed an offline-first mobile web app architecture with data sourcing from Sharepoint

C#/Mono development of video encoding APIs to enable multithreading and scaling capabilities
Frontend development with CakePHP/jQuery
Workflow improvements designed and implemented including SVN/git migration and CI/CD
Development of Salesforce Apex application for integration into the main app

Backend APIs for Starling/iOS/Android video games with Node.js and Ruby on Rails for McDonald's, Blockbuster and Nickelodeon
Design and development of Technicolor's metadata catalogue system

Developing custom web applications and websites with CakePHP 2/3 and ruby on rails
Frontend development with jQuery(ui) and prototype.js
System admin for CentOS/Debian servers running Apache/Nginx/MySQL/Sphinx

Logistics supply calculator for the game Foxhole — a priority-calculation layer built on fir's TensorFlow/TensorFlow.js image recognition, turning stockpile screenshots into prioritised supply requirements

Rust Prometheus exporter for Fronius solar inverters with subnet auto-discovery, Grafana dashboards and Docker/Kubernetes (Helm) deployment, used at home to monitor my local power grid