Gareth Mccumskey
Developer Advocate
Loulé, Portugal
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Top SchoolGareth Mccumskey is a Developer Advocate and seasoned web engineer with 11 years of professional experience and nearly 20 years coding across RESTful APIs, WordPress, PHP systems and serverless microservices. He has spent the last six years specialising in serverless web application architecture—breaking monoliths into microservices and building both lightweight parsers and full CRUD platforms—while also translating that technical depth into customer success and advocacy roles at Serverless Inc. Gareth combines hands-on engineering with account-facing empathy, helping teams adopt serverless patterns in a way that resonates more with developers than with traditional sales-led approaches. Based in Loulé, Portugal, he brings leadership experience from roles such as Lead Developer and Senior Web Developer and holds ZCE PHP certification alongside a multidisciplinary BSc background. An engineer who prefers solving product and operational problems over pure pitching, he’s known for turning complex integration challenges into pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Matric, Matric at Milner High SchoolBSc Geology, Maths, Chemistry, Geology, Computer Science, BSc Geology, Maths, Chemistry, Geology, Computer Science at University of the WitwatersrandZCE, PHP Certification, ZCE, PHP Certification at Zend
Afrikaans, English
Stackoverflow
1,530reputation
92kreached
76answers
5questions
aws-lambda
top-5%
amazon-web-services
top-5%
Github Skills (151)
woocommerce10
azure-functions10
mobile-web10
google-cloud10
aws-serverless10
serverless10
wordpress10
aws-apigateway10
serverless-applications10
lambda10
azure10
serverless-plugin10
serverless-architectures10
aws-lambda10
google-cloud-functions10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
garethmcc/monrepotest
Oct 2019 - Sep 2021
Contributions:86 commits, 16 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year 11 months
garethmcc/openlibrary
Oct 2018 - Sep 2023
One webpage for every book ever published!
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
publishedreacteverwebpage
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