Jesse Mcdowell
Owner at Pragmatic Potato Software
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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SeniorJesse Mcdowell is a seasoned software architect and owner with 12 years of professional experience building robust back-end systems and full-stack solutions across startups and large enterprises. He has led cloud migrations and modernized monolithic on‑prem applications into multi-tenant, Kubernetes-based platforms while laying groundwork for microservices at Aquatic Informatics. His hands-on background spans .NET ORM work (including contributions to ServiceStack.OrmLite), front-end UI improvements, data design, deployment automation, and AWS operations. Comfortable working with distributed teams across continents, he pairs pragmatic engineering with stakeholder coordination and presentation skills. Now running Pragmatic Potato Software, he consults on designing scalable, maintainable systems—bringing a rare blend of legacy system replacement experience and practical open-source contribution.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (27)
angular10
javascript10
oracles10
forms10
netframework10
oracle10
orm10
sql10
csharp10
eforms10
react10
testing9
rest-api9
html9
sqlite8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dsternlicht/RESTool
Dec 2018 - Jan 2020
RESTool is an open source UI tool for managing RESTful APIs. It could save you time developing your own internal tools. A live example:
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:63 commits, 22 PRs, 17 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily contributed to the front-end development of the RESTool application. Their work focused on enhancing the user interface by adding features such as support for number inputs and shared input components to reduce code duplication. They also refactored and improved the component's styling. Furthermore, the user made significant updates to improve form functionality and implement better user experience.
apidevelopinginternalrestfuljavascript
ServiceStack/ServiceStack.OrmLite
May 2014 - Sep 2014
Fast, Simple, Typed ORM for .NET
Role in this project:Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:5 commits, 3 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jesse focused on fixing bugs, improving the ORM's functionality and improving support for various database backends. This included correcting typos, updating tests, and implementing optimistic concurrency features. They also refactored the Oracle implementation, specifically dealing with identity values and updating database interactions. Their contributions were primarily in the .NET framework, focusing on ORM-related code and testing.
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