James Mcquillan
Head Of Software at Brickfield Education Labs
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Mcquillan is a hands-on engineering leader with 14+ years building SaaS and learning-technology platforms and over a decade in technical leadership roles. Currently Head of Software at Brickfield Education Labs, he has led development teams, shaped product architecture, and driven delivery improvements across Node.js, PHP, AWS/Azure, CI/CD, and automated testing. He has a strong track record delivering enterprise integrations and mission-critical features—most notably leading widely adopted Office 365/Moodle integrations and open-source plugins that ranked in the top three for their categories. Known for combining people leadership with direct contributions to architecture and debugging, he improves quality through automation, code review, and modern development practices. Based in Old Toronto and grounded in customer-driven development, he brings a pragmatic, product-focused approach and a flair for turning complex educational requirements into scalable, maintainable systems.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
4-Year Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, 4-Year Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (67)
moodle10
authentication10
microsoft-azure10
office36510
azuread10
thunderbird10
lms10
active-directory10
microsoft-graph-api10
powershell10
azure10
azure-ad-b2c10
onenote10
onedrive10
solidworks10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jamesmcq/o365-moodle
Sep 2015 - Dec 2019
Moodle plugins for Microsoft cloud services including Office 365.
Contributions:9 pushes, 294 branches in 4 years 3 months
cloud-servicesmicrosoft-cloudpowershellmoodle-pluginsoffice-365
microsoft/o365-moodle
Oct 2014 - Nov 2019
Office 365 and Azure Active Directory plugins for Moodle
Contributions:161 releases, 4460 commits, 55 PRs in 5 years 1 month
microsoft-school-data-syncoffice365onedriveazure-ad-b2cmicrosoft
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