Dave Mcmillan
Software Engineer at Freelance
Stratford, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Mcmillan is a software engineer with a decade of experience building backend systems, APIs, and web applications across startups and enterprise teams from Stratford, Ontario. He has hands-on expertise in Go, Kubernetes, and full-stack development—most recently contributing to CircleCI’s Deploy and Release team where he helped build a Kubernetes agent and release-management APIs integrated with Argo Rollouts. Dave has led small engineering teams and delivered production ETL pipelines, automated image-processing tools, and monitoring dashboards that bridged business requirements with operational reliability. His background includes HIPAA-compliant collaboration software and practical machine/ shop-floor experience from earlier CNC work, reflecting a pragmatic approach to solving real-world problems. Now freelancing, he combines deep systems knowledge with a knack for turning ambiguous requirements into maintainable, observable systems.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Western UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at The University of Western Ontario
Github Skills (15)
api-blueprint10
circleci10
jekyll9
api-documentation9
redoc8
documentation8
installer2
audio-effect1
audio1
kubernetes1
audio-applications1
agent1
audio-device1
primitive1
dac1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rdmcmillan/.emacs.d
Jan 2016 - Apr 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 8 years 4 months
rdmcmillan/simple-clj-server
Mar 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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