Greg Mcdonald
Team Lead And Senior Full-Stack Developer at Rum&Code
Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolGreg Mcdonald is a pragmatic technology leader and senior full-stack developer with 11 years of professional experience, currently leading a team at Rum&Code building low-latency Phoenix/Elixir streaming and AI-driven interpretation systems. He combines deep hands-on skills across Rails, Phoenix, React, Ember and React Native with infrastructure know-how in AWS, Docker and Terraform, and a disciplined TDD/CI practice. Greg’s background as an indie educational app maker and former high-school science teacher informs his product instincts for accessible, learning-focused software—most recently developing an AI-powered decodable-text platform for early readers. His academic training in physics and cellular neuroscience gives him a researcher's rigor for prototyping complex features like STT/translation/TTS pipelines and FX simulation tools. Colleagues know him for mentoring juniors, running technical interviews, and balancing innovation with maintainable code.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Physics, Master of Science - MS, Physics at Université LavalBachelor of Science - BS, Japanese Language and Literature, Bachelor of Science - BS, Japanese Language and Literature at University of Toronto
Japanese, English, French
Github Skills (38)
multiselect9
lorem-ipsum9
liveview8
tailwindcss7
elixir-programming-language7
elixir7
daisyui6
gmail-api6
http-api6
ruby-on-rails5
backend5
square5
phoenix-framework5
api-client5
web-application5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rum-and-code/yanky
May 2023 - Sep 2024
CLI tool to get the open PRs of a specific team
Contributions:2 reviews, 16 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 3 months
rum-and-code/airbrake_ex
Nov 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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