James Mcgill
Founding Engineer at Actuals.com
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Mcgill is a founding engineer and seasoned software leader with eight years of experience building scalable cloud-native systems and high-performing engineering teams across startups and Google. He has led engineering organizations at Button and Code Climate and now helps remove the "boring bits" from accounting at Actuals.com, blending hands-on backend work in Go and NodeJS with pragmatic management. His technical pedigree includes building large-scale mapping and conferencing services at Google and contributing to widely used open-source projects such as the Terraform Google provider—adding BigQuery view support and improving resource correctness. Based in Melbourne but experienced in NYC and global teams, he pairs product-minded engineering with a focus on culture, process, and developer empowerment. An early tinkerer with Arduino and client-side frameworks, he brings curiosity and a penchant for practical infrastructure that reliably ships.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Management Entrepreneurship and Organizational Management, Bachelor of Business Management Entrepreneurship and Organizational Management at The University of Queensland
Github Skills (8)
terraformer10
go10
bigquery10
google-cloud10
sql10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-provider-google
Jul 2017 - Jan 2018
Terraform Provider for Google Cloud Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 8 PRs, 8 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the implementation and maintenance of BigQuery table resources within the Google Cloud provider for Terraform. Their work included adding support for BigQuery views, including both legacy and standard SQL, and fixing related test cases. Furthermore, the user updated the expected data types for certain table properties, demonstrating a focus on the correct configuration of resources within the provider. These contributions focused on adding functionality and ensuring the Terraform provider was correctly interacting with the BigQuery API.
google-cloud-platformterraform-providerterraformgoogle-cloud
jmcgill/formation
Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
Bulk import of resources into Terraform
Contributions:58 commits, 31 pushes, 7 comments in 5 months
bulkimportterraform
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