Andy Mckay
President at Clearwind Consulting
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Mckay is a seasoned software engineering leader with 23 years building and managing large web applications and developer platforms, currently running Clearwind Consulting from Vancouver. He has led teams at GitHub (including Director of Actions Platform), Vercel, and Mozilla, blending hands-on backend work with strategic product leadership across integrations, marketplace, and CI/CD tooling. A pragmatic advocate for open source languages and tools, he contributes to prominent projects like Vercel—fixing CLI and Python server issues and improving dev/prod parity. Andy’s background spans founding CTO roles to senior engineering management, giving him rare fluency in both startup product velocity and enterprise-scale reliability. He pairs an economics degree with deep technical experience, and outside work he signals a love of outdoor activity and community through a lively GitHub bio.
23 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Economics, BSc Economics at University of BathBCIT
Github Skills (14)
command-line-interface10
error-handling10
python10
cli10
command-line10
networking9
debug9
debugging9
api8
apidoc8
hosting8
javascript7
docker6
dockers6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
vercel/vercel
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Develop. Preview. Ship.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 20 reviews, 52 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily focuses on bug fixes and improvements to the Vercel CLI and Python server implementations. They addressed connection issues by handling socket hang-up errors, corrected broken URLs within the codebase, and updated the `vc dev` environment's templates to align more closely with production. Additionally, they addressed issues related to duplicate header values in Python functions. They also added functionality for listing features with command-line flags.
hostingshipcloudcommandjamstack
andymckay/issue-label-notification-action
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
An action to notify individuals or teams when specific labels are added to an issue.
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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