Alex Mcgill
Software Engineer II at N-able
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Mcgill is a Software Engineer II based in Edinburgh with eight years of hands-on experience building web and data-driven systems across consultancy and product teams. After progressing through multiple development roles at Scott Logic and a research stint applying data science to climate litigation, he now contributes to N-able where he focuses on delivering reliable, production-grade software. His background blends full-stack engineering with practical DevOps knowledge from early work on interactive Linux teaching materials and freelance projects, giving him a strong emphasis on usability and automation. Alex’s trajectory shows rapid technical growth and a knack for translating academic research problems into pragmatic engineering solutions.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computing, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computing at Edinburgh Napier University
Github Skills (11)
logic8
flask7
jquery7
mongodb6
jekyll6
python5
javascript5
praw4
reddit4
social-media3
java2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mcgill-a/Crowdsourced-Cleanup
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
Hackathon repository (1st place). Built using Python, Flask, JavaScript, jQuery and MongoDB
Contributions:97 commits, 4 PRs, 37 pushes in 6 months
placepythonjquery-javascriptjqueryjavascript
mcgill-a/whichone
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:15 reviews, 328 commits, 82 PRs in 1 month
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