Jamie Mcdonald
Senior Product Engineer, Digital at Waitrose & Partners
Reading, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJamie Mcdonald is a Senior Product Engineer with over a decade of Java-focused software engineering experience, currently building microservices at Waitrose & Partners using Spring Boot, Kubernetes and AWS Lambda. He brings cross-sector insight from Retail, Health, Rail and Public Sector engagements, enabling pragmatic solutions that balance operational reliability with feature delivery. At IBM he led Java teams on 24/7 mission-critical integrations, introduced CI/CD and containerisation practices, and mentored engineers through complex deployments. Comfortable across the full delivery lifecycle, he pairs hands-on coding with incident response and automation skills developed supporting live services. Jamie holds a First Class degree in Computer Science with AI from Loughborough and has a track record of turning legacy constraints into maintainable, automated pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
First Class Honours, Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence, First Class Honours, Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence at Loughborough University
Github Skills (101)
testing10
junit10
docker-container10
jenkins-plugin10
gradle-plugin10
integration-testing10
docker-compose10
selenium-webdriver10
java10
ansible9
test-automation9
python9
security9
maven-plugin9
databases9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jrmcdonald/ms-gradle-baseline
Jul 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:11 releases, 51 PRs, 65 pushes in 1 year 3 months
jrmcdonald/helm-charts
Mar 2020 - Aug 2021
A set of helm charts for deploying applications.
Contributions:32 releases, 36 PRs, 86 pushes in 1 year 4 months
deployingchartshelmhelm-chartskubernetes
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