Jack Mcgregor
Database Administrator
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJack Mcgregor is a Database Administrator with nine years of experience supporting mission-critical trading infrastructure at BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager. He specializes in administering SAP Sybase ASE/Repserver/IQ, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server while collaborating with Unix, Network and Storage teams to deliver high-performance data platforms for the Aladdin ecosystem. Jack combines hands-on operational support—troubleshooting outages, tuning applications, and building monitoring and maintenance tools in Perl, Java and JavaScript—with project work such as major migrations, benchmarking and long-term root-cause remediation. His Computational Physics background and undergraduate thesis on Monte Carlo modelling of polymer solar cells give him a strong quantitative mindset and comfort with simulation, MATLAB and scientific programming. Based in Edinburgh, he is adept at translating low-level performance profiles into proactive infrastructure recommendations that protect trillions in managed assets.
9 years of coding experience
Secondary School, Secondary School at Bo'ness AcademyHeriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus
English
Github Skills (184)
mongoose10
debug10
react10
redux-devtools10
javascript9
redux-devtools-extension9
devtools9
browser9
expressjs9
npm9
redux9
mern9
nodejs9
executable8
forex8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Antler-Digital/payload-plugin-analytics
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:85 PRs, 67 pushes, 91 branches in 1 month
j-mcgregor/john-doe-portfolio
Apr 2020 - Sep 2020
First run through of proposed YouTube course
Contributions:44 PRs, 78 pushes, 23 branches in 4 months
youtube-courseyoutube
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