Iain Mccallum
Principal Engineer at Safeguard Global
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIain Mccallum is a Principal Engineer based in Edinburgh with 11 years’ experience designing and delivering cloud-native, event-driven systems and high-impact front-end experiences. At Safeguard Global he blends tech leadership, line management, and hands-on implementation—owning architecture options, roadmaps, code reviews, and BI visualizations to show measurable business value. His background spans full-stack Node.js microservices, React UIs, and AWS building blocks like EventBridge, Lambdas, ECS and DynamoDB, informed by a roots-in-design perspective from earlier graphic and web work. He’s skilled at spinning up teams and defining engineering ways of working (DoR/DoD), and he pairs pragmatic trade-off analysis with clear diagrams and stakeholder communication. An approachable mentor and systems thinker, he brings a designer’s eye for UX and a penchant for making complex, distributed systems understandable to senior leadership.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Arts, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Arts at Abertay UniversityBachelor’s Degree Architecture, Bachelor’s Degree Architecture at Edinburgh College of Art
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Github Skills (43)
logic8
leaderboard8
coffeescript7
wikipedia7
nodejs7
javascript7
template-engine7
static-site7
databinding7
binding7
html6
cypher6
neo4j6
firefox6
keystonejs6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
WikiLogic/WikiLogic-0.2
Mar 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:485 commits, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
rationallogiccharityarguments
WikiLogic/react-app
Mar 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:265 commits, 2 PRs, 238 pushes in 1 year
reactjsreactfront-end
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