Gabriel Mcdonald
Senior Software Engineering Manager at YCharts
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGabriel Mcdonald is a Senior Software Engineering Manager in New York with nine years of experience building and leading full-stack teams at YCharts and the American Physical Society. Trained in cognitive science and philosophy, he brings a linguistics-inflected, analytical approach to software design and a pragmatic bent toward shipping robust production systems across more than five programming languages. He progressed from individual contributor to engineering lead and now manager within the same company, showing hands-on coding discipline alongside people and delivery leadership. Restless by nature, he continuously explores new technologies and favors functional programming patterns even when choosing pragmatic trade-offs. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex product requirements into practical, auditable engineering solutions while mentoring teams to adopt clearer, more reliable architectures.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Philosophy, Master’s Degree Philosophy at Syracuse UniversityBachelor’s Degree Philosophy, Bachelor’s Degree Philosophy at University of Notre Dame
English, French
Github Skills (16)
dataframes10
threaded10
python10
polars10
dataframe10
rust9
mls9
apache-arrow9
hybrid8
music8
rails6
ruby-on-rails6
ruby5
django3
redis2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tacitblue/image-book
Jan 2019 - Jul 2021
Image uploading application
Contributions:3 PRs, 15 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 6 months
uploading
gabeice/polars
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Dataframes powered by a multithreaded, vectorized query engine, written in Rust
Contributions:36 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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