Fergus Mcdowall
Information Technology Architect
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolFergus Mcdowall is an Information Technology Architect based in Oslo with 13 years of experience designing and leading web, search and data management solutions across public and private sectors. He combines hands-on engineering with people leadership, having headed content and research computing groups at the University of Oslo and currently steering IT architecture at Deichman bibliotek. His background spans productising open-source search tech as a managing director, modernising large publishing datasets and building search-driven platforms and integrations for clients from government to enterprise. Comfortable from Java and front-end roots to large-scale search indexes and collections management, he’s especially skilled at turning complex information ecosystems into maintainable, user-focused services. Colleagues would note his dry engineer’s humour — he appreciates that the hardest problems are cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors — reflecting a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to reliability and naming.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PgDip, Software Engineering (Games and Virtual Environments), PgDip, Software Engineering (Games and Virtual Environments) at University of Abertay DundeeMA, Sociology, Philosophy, Humanities Computing, MA, Sociology, Philosophy, Humanities Computing at University of Glasgow
Norwegian, Swedish, Danish
Github Skills (200)
cms10
web-application10
swagger10
rest-api10
throw10
extend10
javascript10
leveldown10
leveldb10
browser10
swagger-ui10
api10
rest10
nlp10
search-engine10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
fergiemcdowall/norch-bootstrap
Oct 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 5 months
pluggableangularfront-endbootstrapforage
fergiemcdowall/search-index-searcher
Jan 2016 - Oct 2017
search in a search-index
Contributions:23 releases, 149 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 9 months
search-enginesearchsearch-indexindex
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