Alan Mclean
Senior Software Engineer at Chicago Trading Company
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlan Mclean is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with 16 years of experience building and supporting mission-critical trading systems and production infrastructure. He’s transitioned from hands-on Windows and automation work into designing and implementing distributed, event-sourced Java applications and improving observability with OpenTelemetry to reduce production incidents. At Morgan Stanley he combined deep FIX-protocol and UNIX troubleshooting expertise with automation to shrink manual toil, and now advances low-latency systems at Chicago Trading Company. He also contributes front-end improvements to high-profile open-source projects like the New York Times Document Viewer, showing range from UI/CSS cleanups to JS document handling. Known for pragmatic system re-architecture and a focus on reliability, he pairs strong ops instincts with full-stack development skills.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Security, Bachelor of Science Computer Security at University of the West of England
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Github Skills (5)
html10
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javascript10
document-viewer10
ui-design8
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Github contributions (1)
documentcloud/document-viewer
Jun 2010 - Jul 2010
The NYTimes Document Viewer
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:42 commits in 29 days
Contributions summary:Alan primarily worked on improving the front-end aspects of the document viewer. Their contributions included cleaning and updating meta tags in the HTML files, as well as refactoring CSS for better spacing and organization. Furthermore, the user made changes to the JavaScript files to load different documents, and normalized spacing.
nytimesviewerdocument-viewer
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