Ciaran Doherty
Python Software Consultant at Wood Mackenzie
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCiaran Doherty is a seasoned backend and middleware engineer with 11+ years of professional experience and two decades of hands-on Python work, now consulting from Glasgow on Python, Go and JavaScript systems. He has repeatedly owned end-to-end projects—from designing LIMS and PCI-compliant payment gateways to building REST APIs, ETL pipelines and optimisation systems—often as sole backend owner or principal engineer. Comfortable across startups and enterprises (Morgan Stanley, BBC, Wood Mackenzie, government labs), he blends systems administration, deployment (Docker, AWS) and coaching of junior developers into delivery. Known for pragmatic rewrites and migration work, he frequently modernises legacy stacks and introduces testing, CI and release automation. He’s actively available for contract work locally or remotely and brings a track record of shipping auditable, production-grade systems under tight timelines.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc (hons), Computer Science, 2:2, Bsc (hons), Computer Science, 2:2 at The University of Stirling
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Github Skills (39)
finance9
api9
rust8
amazon8
nodejs7
hbase7
standard-library7
python7
compiler7
shell6
introspection6
sorting6
rust-language6
react6
functional-programming6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cad106uk/web_scraper
Aug 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
cad106uk/go_graph
Oct 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:8 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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