John Mccracken
Technology Consultant at ScottishPower
Ayr, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJohn Mccracken is a cloud-focused technology consultant with 10 years of hands-on experience designing and implementing AWS and Azure solutions for customers ranging from startups to large financial firms. He combines full-stack development skills and infrastructure expertise—having led IT strategy, security, and cloud migrations—to deliver maintainable, SOLID-code systems and resilient cloud architectures. At ScottishPower and previously Cloudsoft Corporation he advised technical and non-technical stakeholders on cost optimisation, Well-Architected reviews, and cloud-native modernisation. His background includes long-term ownership of web platforms and backend systems (Docker, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Laravel/Vue) and practical experience integrating government and enterprise systems. Based in Ayr, Scotland, he brings a pragmatic blend of hands-on engineering and client-facing consultancy, often turning complex legacy environments into modern, auditable cloud services.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computing, Bachelor's Degree Computing at University of the West of ScotlandHND Computing, HND Computing at Ayr College
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Github Skills (17)
javascript9
security9
open-source9
lambda9
portal8
cloudflare7
sugarcrm6
php6
entrypoint6
memcached6
suitecrm6
moodle6
laravel6
crm4
documents4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
johnmccuk/gatsby-blog
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
Blog written in React/Gatsby
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
johnmccuk/cloudflare-ip-security-group-update
Feb 2017 - Jan 2021
Lambda function to retrieve Cloudflare's IP address list and update the specified security group
Contributions:16 commits, 5 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 years 11 months
cloudflarelambdasecurity
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