Gary Devenay
Principal Engineer Machine Learning & Data Engineering
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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SeniorGary Devenay is a Principal Engineer specializing in Machine Learning and Data Engineering with nearly two decades of software experience and a proven ability to translate complex technical challenges into measurable business value. He has led AI and cloud-native transformations for startups and enterprises alike, from architecting an AWS-native lakehouse and multi-tenant SaaS processing over a billion monthly data points to deploying custom transformer models and real-time event detection systems. As a former CTO he has shipped award-winning consumer mobile apps and built an intelligence SaaS that delivered substantial client impact, and he pairs hands-on engineering (Golang microservices, Kubernetes, streaming) with executive-level product and commercial instincts. Based in Edinburgh, he is pragmatic about governance and operationalisation—building data platforms that are as secure and maintainable as they are innovative. An underrated strength is his track record of closing deals and aligning engineering roadmaps with revenue outcomes, demonstrating rare fluency across tech, product and business.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (102)
sendgrid10
transactional-emails10
maps9
mapbox-gl9
tiles9
geojson9
mapkit9
react-native9
mapbox-gl-js9
twilio9
php9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
garydevenay/Umbraco-Context-Mock
Nov 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:1 release, 8 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 3 months
mockingumbraco
garydevenay/operationcovid19
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 22 PRs, 36 pushes in 15 days
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