Colin Gourlay
Senior Cloud Engineer at FSP
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolColin Gourlay is a Senior Cloud Engineer based in Edinburgh with over two decades of cross-sector experience and 11 years focused in software engineering, delivering robust .NET/C# and Azure solutions. He has led and shipped impactful fintech and pension analytics platforms—most notably the award-winning LGPS Funding Risk Monitoring tool—that turn complex funding data into intuitive dashboards for better decision-making. Comfortable across the full stack with Angular front-ends, Docker-based deployments and cloud-native architectures, he blends hands-on development with mentoring and technical leadership. His career started in practical IT roles and progressed through technical lead positions, giving him an uncommon appreciation for operational realities and user-centered design. Known for consistently delivering on time and on budget, he pairs engineering discipline with a pragmatic focus on reducing administrative overhead for clients. Outside of core projects he brings a habit of turning legacy systems into maintainable, auditable solutions that continue to pay dividends for organisations.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, BSc at The Open University
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Github Skills (99)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
colin-gourlay/sundown-sessions
Jan 2024 - Feb 2025
🌎 The Sundown Sessions website.
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 938 pushes in 1 year 1 month
colin-gourlay/Radarr
Aug 2023 - Dec 2023
A fork of Sonarr to work with movies à la Couchpotato.
Contributions:2 PRs, 56 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
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