Chris Mcdermott
Principal Software Engineer at UKG
Westford, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Mcdermott is a Principal Software Engineer with over three decades of hands-on experience designing and building reactive, distributed, and high-performance mission-critical systems. Based in Westford, Massachusetts, he has led architecture and data engineering efforts at UKG and Hewlett Packard Enterprise after a long tenure at Veritas/Symantec and Compaq, bringing a rare blend of low-level systems know-how and product ownership. He combines computing generalist breadth across hardware and software with practical Agile leadership as a Scrum Master and Product Owner. Known for stabilizing and scaling complex platforms, he thrives on turning ambiguous requirements into robust, production-ready architectures. His career path—from embedded and lab work at Draper to enterprise storage and cloud-era data engineering—reveals an engineer who navigates both research-grade and highly operational environments. Colleagues rely on him for deep technical judgment, pragmatic trade-offs, and mentoring teams through difficult system design decisions.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Northeastern University - College of Computer Science
Github Skills (61)
network-configuration10
python10
java10
automation10
ansible10
infrastructure-as-code10
devops10
ssh10
apache9
reactive9
apache-nifi9
logstash9
stream9
elasticsearch8
sbt-plugin8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ckmcd/nifi
Mar 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:26 pushes, 5 branches in 5 months
javanifiapacheapache-nifi
ckmcd/site
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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