Graeme Mckerrell
Technical Lead At Skyhigh Security
Dacorum, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGraeme Mckerrell is a technical lead and principal software engineer with over two decades of experience building high-performance networking and security software, currently leading engineering at Skyhigh Security. He combines deep systems and embedded expertise—from VxWorks and ASIC integration to Linux and TCP/IP architectures—with a disciplined focus on clean interfaces, OOD, and rigorous testing. Graeme has driven modularity and distributed management designs at 3Com and built memory-tainting tools and CLISH ports to tame tricky real-time environments at Newport Networks. At McAfee and Intel Security he led teams delivering secure, scalable products, and he continues to contribute to open-source projects such as adding JPA @MapsId support in the popular Elide framework. Known for quickly learning new technologies and refactoring for maintainability, he pairs hands-on problem solving with technical mentorship. An Oxford-educated engineer, he brings a rare blend of low-level debugging craft and high-level architectural leadership.
8 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Christleton High School2:1 (MEng), Engineering and Materials, 2:1 (MEng), Engineering and Materials at Oxford University
Github Skills (11)
javas10
jpa10
hibernate10
java10
api9
unit-testing9
json-api8
wordpress-graphql7
wpgraphql7
graphql7
refactoring7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
yahoo/elide
Apr 2019 - Aug 2020
Elide is a Java library that lets you stand up a GraphQL/JSON-API web service with minimal effort.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 8 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Graeme primarily focused on implementing features related to JPA annotations, specifically `@MapsId`, within the Elide framework. Their contributions included adding support for this annotation, writing unit tests to validate its functionality, and refactoring existing code for better integration. The user also made improvements to the existing code base by addressing checkstyle and codacy issues, updating documentation, and ensuring backward compatibility. These changes enhance the framework's ability to handle various JPA mappings and maintain code quality.
standmobileweb-servicejson-apiorm
gmckerrell/python-toys
May 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 133 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 9 months
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