Gavin Mcquillan
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Squarespace
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGavin Mcquillan is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Portland with 15 years building resilient data and infrastructure systems across companies from Google to Squarespace. He specializes in Go, Java, and Python, designing scalable databases, ETL pipelines, caching and cache-invalidation strategies, and failover automation that keep analytics and HTTP services reliable at scale. Comfortable as both an individual contributor and manager, he has led SRE and data teams, driven cross-team technical coordination, and introduced system design review practices. Gavin favors pragmatic, flexible tooling that accelerates team delivery and has a track record migrating legacy systems to modern distributed architectures. Notably, his background spans hands-on datacenter operations through cloud and Kubernetes orchestration, giving him rare end-to-end perspective on performance, deployment, and observability.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
English, Writing, Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude, English, Writing, Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude at Oregon State University
French, Spanish
Github Skills (180)
operator10
monitoring10
sql10
database10
cockroachdb10
sql-database10
django9
kubernetes-operator9
acl9
aurora9
postgresql9
python9
prometheus-operator9
mysql9
kubernetes9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
buildingenergy/mcm-core
Dec 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:130 commits, 5 comments in 8 months
cleanmergemcmmapgis
gmcquillan/django-brake
Apr 2012 - Jul 2019
Django Brake - a versatile ratelimiting app for Django.
Contributions:82 commits, 18 PRs, 22 pushes in 7 years 4 months
ratelimitingpythondjangopython3versatile
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