Brian Mcdonald
Principal Software Engineer at Freelance (Self employed)
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Mcdonald is a Principal Software Engineer with over 12 years of hands-on experience building scalable eCommerce platforms, cloud-native microservices, and process automation for retail and enterprise clients. He leads full-stack architecture and delivery, combining Java, C#, PHP, TypeScript, and cloud tooling (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes) to produce high-availability systems integrated with ERPs like NetSuite and SAP Business One. At Luxury Brand Partners he architects end-to-end customer-facing commerce and internal microservices, while his long freelance history shows a pattern of solving integration and performance challenges across Magento, Shopify, Laravel, and search stacks. Known for pragmatic design, clean code and strong operational chops, he often bridges product and infrastructure teams to accelerate releases with CI/CD and observability. Based in Miami, he pairs entrepreneurial experience as a founder/CTO with deep implementation expertise, frequently turning analytics-driven UX improvements into measurable conversion gains.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Broward College
English
Github Skills (19)
palette10
whitelist10
color-palette10
klaviyo9
laravel5
ecommerce4
storefront4
vue-storefront4
php4
sphinx4
vue4
spree4
sphinxsearch3
magento3
fallback2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
brianmcdo/ImagePalette
Dec 2013 - Oct 2015
Extracts colors from an image and generates a color palette against a whitelist of colors.
Contributions:1 release, 109 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 10 months
palettecolor-paletteextractswhitelist
brianmcdo/brianmcdonald.io
Sep 2016 - Jun 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 7 years 10 months
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