Heather Mccartney
Staff Software Engineer (AI) at Unitary
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHeather Mccartney is a Staff Software Engineer (AI) based in Leeds with 11 years of experience building data-driven systems, leading teams, and shipping production ML solutions. She combines deep core Java and data engineering expertise with hands-on DevOps experience—having built distributed persistence layers, GCP environments with Terraform and Kubernetes, and pipelines from Jupyter to production. Heather has progressed from early startup roles to technical leadership at Anaplan and Blend, mentoring engineers and even designing workshops for cross-site teams in Tel Aviv. Her strengths are empathy and pedagogy: she leverages a teaching background to grow teams, onboard graduates, and translate research into reliable products. Comfortable across the stack, she moves projects from prototype to scale, particularly in NLP and recommendation systems. Colleagues describe her as an energetic, pragmatic leader who prioritises quality, team growth, and measurable impact.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
2.1 Music, 2.1 Music at University of CambridgeUniversity of York
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Github Skills (81)
opensearch10
apache-storm10
elasticsearch10
streaming10
storm10
search-engine10
apache10
java10
circle10
restful10
transactional9
big-data9
travis9
jenkins9
pipeline8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hmcc/price-search
May 2015 - Sep 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 4 months
pythonautomationsupermarket
hmcc/storm
Mar 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:71 pushes, 20 branches in 10 months
javastormapache-stormapache
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