Don McRae
Independent Software Consultant at Freelance
Sarasota, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolDon McRae is an independent software consultant and architect with over 25 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering secure, cloud-based commercial systems, and 14 years of recent professional practice. He combines deep AWS expertise (Solutions Architect Professional and DevOps Engineer Professional) with veteran knowledge of Windows, .NET Core/C#, C/C++, Java, and relational databases to build microservices, high-throughput trading systems, and serverless solutions. His career spans roles from CTO and founder to senior developer and DevOps engineer, with notable work in financial services including real-time derivatives pricing, market data distribution, FIX integrations, and an off-exchange order crossing engine. He’s led teams through full SDLCs, security hardening, cloud migrations, and performance tuning using tools like DataDog and PostgreSQL optimizations. A former founder who helped raise funding and exit to a major bank, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with practitioner-level implementation skills. Based in Sarasota, FL, he still ships code and mentors teams while consulting on architecture, operations, and secure cloud deployments.
14 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Bowling Green State UniversityMBA Finance, MBA Finance at Cleveland State University
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spring-projects/spring-net-amqp-samples
Sep 2011 - Oct 2011
Contributions:3 commits in 1 month
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