About Mark Kirby
- I’m a mobile developer based in Brighton
- I work for Ribot as a their user-focused developer
- Over the past 2 years I’ve worked on secret projects for Ribot with some of the largest companies out there, written an article on PhoneGap for .net magazine and created a Flash Lite app which won multiple awards including Flash Lite Developers Challenge and a MEX User Experience Award
- Over the past 10 years I’ve gained a degree in Business Information Systems Management, completed a placement year at Eli Lilly in Belgium, managed the IT function at international AIDS organisation AVERT and worked on a range of projects as a freelancer
- I have a keen interest in community, I was one of the main organisers of BarCamp Brighton 3 and have given talks at BarCamps as well as a one off WordPress talk at a local co-working space
- My interests outside of coding include user interaction design, standards, mobile, arthouse cinema and life hacks
- My main areas of experience include Symbian WRT, HTML/CSS/JS, ANT, Flash Lite, C# and Silverlight, PHP as well as dabbling in many other areas
