David Mccraw
Software Engineering Senior Manager at FanDuel
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Mccraw is a seasoned software engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling high-throughput, reliable systems from payments at Mastercard and DataCash to consumer-facing platforms at Scoffable and FanDuel. He blends hands-on backend expertise—contributing to open-source energy-monitoring tooling like emoncms—with senior management skills, having led multiple engineering organisations through acquisitions, PE-driven mergers, and rapid product delivery cycles. Comfortable shipping weekly to billion-transaction platforms and architecting cloud, RPA and ML roadmaps, he focuses on replacing manual processes with automated, measurable systems. Based in Edinburgh, he pairs pragmatic technical depth with an entrepreneurial mindset, proven by steering a profitable bootstrap to market disruption. A quirky believer in AI agents managing engineers who manage agents, he’s equally at home in configuration files and C-suite strategy.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computer Science, BSc (Hons) Computer Science at The University of Edinburgh
Github Skills (9)
php10
web-development10
web-application10
webapp10
api8
javascript8
database-management8
mysql8
apidoc8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
emoncms/emoncms
Mar 2014 - Apr 2014
Web-app for processing, logging and visualising energy, temperature and other environmental data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to back-end development by merging updates and addressing conflicts. Code changes show modifications to configuration files, input processing, and modules related to the energy monitoring web application. The user also integrated third-party libraries for features such as date and time pickers. These contributions suggest a focus on maintaining and improving the core functionality of the energy data processing and visualization platform.
environmentalphpdashboardsloggingemoncms
MasterCard/mastercard-payment-gateway-sdk
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:15 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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