Barry Mcgillin
Senior Director Of Development at Oracle
Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBarry Mcgillin is a seasoned software leader with over two decades in the industry and more than a decade of hands-on leadership at Oracle, currently serving as Senior Director of Development. He has led teams responsible for widely used database tools such as Oracle SQL Developer, Oracle REST Data Services, and SQLcl, focusing on broad availability and migrations from major database platforms. Barry combines deep technical experience in development, consulting and support with strategic product and business development acumen, shepherding products from engineering to millions of users. Based in Northern Ireland, he has a practical background in migration solutions and cloud transitions, including large-scale moves to Oracle Cloud. Known for bridging technical detail and customer-facing outcomes, he thrives on turning complex database challenges into reliable, widely adopted tools. His early career in consulting and project management gives him a rare blend of hands-on coding empathy and enterprise delivery discipline.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science Business, BSc Computer Science Business at Ulster University
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Github Skills (36)
docker10
graalvm10
nosql10
jline10
console10
oracle-database10
java10
homebrew10
sql-developer10
oracle10
rest10
dockerfile10
oracle-linux10
cli10
oracle-db8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bamcgill/jline3
Jun 2021 - Mar 2025
JLine is a Java library for handling console input.
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 years 9 months
consolejava-libraryjlinehandlingjava
bamcgill/bamcgill
Oct 2015 - Oct 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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