Brian McGee
Co-Founder at 41North
Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian McGee is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building full-stack and backend systems across finance and startups, now serving as Co-Founder of 41North in Ireland. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Java, Scala, Go, TypeScript and a wide range of frameworks and storage engines, plus practical DevOps experience running production systems on AWS, Heroku and DigitalOcean. His background includes low-latency financial systems at HSBC, Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch as well as product-focused consulting and freelance work delivering mobile and web solutions. Known for a craft-oriented approach (and an appreciation for good beer), he blends pragmatic engineering with product sensibility to turn complex requirements into reliable, maintainable software.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, MEng at University of Warwick
Spanish
Github Skills (170)
nix10
pgp10
gcp10
security10
linux10
provisioning10
facter10
golang10
azure10
cli10
yii10
json10
cookbook10
secret-management10
java10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
as2network/as2ng
Jun 2020 - Nov 2020
AS2 Protocol Server
Contributions:207 commits in 5 months
as2as2-protocoltusprobebusiness-logic
nix-community/nixos-facter
Jun 2024 - Jul 2026
Declarative hardware configuration for NixOS [maintainer=@brianmcgee,@Mic92]
Contributions:1 release, 25 reviews, 118 PRs in 2 years
hardwarenixosnix
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