John Mcaleely
Lead Engineer at The Yarg Language Project
Guildford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJohn Mcaleely is a seasoned engineering leader with 12+ years delivering cross-platform mobile and system software, currently leading engineering at The Yarg Language Project after managing teams at Spotify and Microsoft. He has led multi-discipline, geographically distributed teams to ship consumer products like Spotify Kids and the SwiftKey keyboard, and earlier contributed to platforms including Ubuntu Phones, ARM Mali GPU stacks and Symbian OS. Comfortable bridging low-level systems (audio, video, graphics) and product-facing mobile engineering, he blends hands-on technical knowledge with people and programme leadership. Notably, his background spans both startup founding and large corporate site leadership, giving him a track record of shipping complex integrations into OEM devices and app stores. Based in Guildford, he pairs an Imperial College Software Engineering master’s with ongoing creative study in photography, a combination that hints at an engineer who values craft and user experience.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Photography, Photography at The Open UniversityMaster’s Degree Software Engineering, Master’s Degree Software Engineering at Imperial College LondonPhotography, Photography at Open College of the Arts
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
scheme6
64-bit6
windows6
linux6
common-lisp6
lisp6
tortoise-svn6
database6
mysql6
linux-kernel5
kernel5
Github contributions (3)
bq/aquaris-E5
Feb 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
kernelkernel-sourcelinuxlinux-kernel
bq/aquaris-E4.5
Mar 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:8 pushes, 3 branches, 3 comments in 9 months
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