Andrew Mckinney
Senior Principal Architect at Egen
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Mckinney is a Senior Principal Architect based in Belfast with nearly two decades of experience designing resilient, secure infrastructure for financial services and adjacent industries. He combines deep on-premises expertise—particularly with enterprise Kubernetes, storage and high-performance time-series systems—with hands-on public cloud and GitOps patterns to run production-grade platforms. At State Street and First Derivatives he led platform engineering, performance tuning and cloud enablement for low-latency trading and analytic products, and more recently drives architecture and delivery across strategic engagements at Qarik Group and Egen. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, security-first designs that bridge legacy datacentres and modern federated cloud deployments, and he’s known for translating complex storage and authentication needs into repeatable, automated operational stacks.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Ulster University
Github Skills (44)
kafka10
nano10
java9
scala9
blockchain9
kafka-consumer9
nanocurrency9
cryptocurrency9
apache-kafka9
cardano8
apache8
bitcoin8
finance8
cryptocurrencies8
lettuce8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
BananoCoin/gobanano
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
An implementation of the Nano cryptocurrency in Go
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes in 1 day
golangnano-cryptocurrencyblockchainnanocryptocurrency
acmck/mishmash
Nov 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 4 branches in 4 months
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