Drew Mcmillan
Staff Engineer at Trainline
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDrew Mcmillan is a Staff Engineer with 11 years’ experience building high-traffic web platforms, currently advancing GraphQL, TypeScript and React at Trainline. He specialises in refactoring legacy REST into performant GraphQL gateways, improving developer experience with Relay and CLI tooling, and driving measurable Web Vitals gains for large booking flows. Drew has production experience across AWS, CloudFront and edge tooling, and volunteers applying the same stack to live interactive events for Good Thinking Society. His background includes shaping BBC News’s Simorgh isomorphic React platform, evidencing both front-end craftsmanship and backend/node infrastructure know-how. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic performance-first decisions that scale across teams and millions of monthly users.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Computer Science, Computer Science Computer Science at Aberystwyth UniversityGCSEs AS and A Levels, GCSEs AS and A Levels at Stratford upon Avon School
Github Skills (200)
prefetch10
single-source10
mouse10
graphql-mesh10
rest-api10
zooming10
fetch-api10
isomorphic-javascript10
mesh10
javascript10
single-page-application10
async10
react-component10
single-page10
imports10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dr3/graphql-mesh
Aug 2022 - Oct 2024
GraphQL Mesh — Query anything, run anywhere
Contributions:42 pushes, 22 branches in 2 years 3 months
querymeshanywheregraphqlgraphql-mesh
dr3/drew.mx-old-cv
May 2019 - Nov 2024
New personal Gatsby site
Contributions:6 PRs, 106 pushes, 9 branches in 5 years 7 months
gatsbygatsby-sitereactgatsbyjs
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