Duncan Mcclean
Founder at ClearingHouse
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDuncan Mcclean is a Glasgow-based software developer with nine years’ experience building Laravel-backed web applications and a specialty in content management systems. As a core contributor to Statamic’s CMS, he has improved session handling and refactored core functionality, demonstrating deep back-end PHP expertise. He balances full-time work at Statamic with founding product-focused startups—most recently ClearingHouse, which automates Stripe-to-FreeAgent bookkeeping with per-product categorisation and multi-currency support. Previously he launched ReadCast, a niche read-later-to-podcast service, showing an eye for pragmatic productization and sustainable side-income. A Scottish “Weegie” and practicing Christian, he brings curiosity, an appetite for useless facts, and a pragmatic engineering mindset to fast-moving teams.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Stonelaw High SchoolNC Information & Technology, Information Technology, NC Information & Technology, Information Technology at Glasgow Clyde College
German
Stackoverflow
152reputation
9kreached
12answers
10questions
Github Skills (17)
cms10
laravel-mix10
laravel10
php10
backend10
composer10
content-management-system9
content-management9
apidoc8
api8
statamic6
zsh6
error-handling6
batchfile6
amazon-web-services6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
statamic/cms
Feb 2020 - Dec 2022
The core Laravel CMS Composer package
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:293 reviews, 62 commits, 680 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Duncan primarily contributed to the core Laravel CMS package, adding and refactoring core functionalities for the session handling features. Their work involved implementing new session tags, porting existing session functionalities, and replacing the previous method calls. The commits also involved replacing `this->get` usage with `this->params->get`, and other code refactoring with the new functions calls.
cmsssgprestashop-modulelaravel10composer
hacktoberfest-finder/hacktoberfest-finder
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
Hacktoberfest Finder is a project to help developers find projects to contribute to during Hacktoberfest.
Contributions:23 reviews, 56 commits, 166 PRs in 4 years 3 months
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