Lachlan Mcdonald
Technology Director at frog
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLachlan Mcdonald is a pragmatic Technology Director and founder with 11 years of experience crafting technically ambitious digital products and campaigns across APAC and EMEA. He combines hands-on creative technology roots with senior leadership roles at frog and R/GA, delivering end-to-end digital transformations for luxury, retail and financial services clients. Known for turning ambiguous briefs into actionable programme plans, he excels at aligning design, engineering and stakeholders to ship bespoke platforms and offline-meets-online activations. Lachlan builds and mentors high-calibre cross-functional teams, shaping hiring, career development and resourcing to sustain long-term delivery. He pursues entrepreneurial initiatives through his studio Maison Mère while retaining day-to-day technical fluency—summing up as a leader who still “does things with the web.”
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Management of Information Technology, Bachelor of Business Management of Information Technology at University of South Australia
English
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Github Skills (136)
testing10
automation10
nike10
magicavoxel10
simplify10
shader10
chromium10
glsl10
sass-compiler10
firefox10
api10
developer-tools10
js-api10
node-module10
callback10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
lachlanmcdonald/factorio-mod-thicker-lines
Nov 2019 - Feb 2022
Factorio mod to thicken power-lines and circuit wires to improve visiblity.
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 3 months
rp2040luaartnetlinesmod
lachlanmcdonald/grunt-saxicon
May 2016 - Oct 2020
grunt-saxicon is a wrapper for saxicon, a module which transforms SVGs into a SASS snippet that allows you to generate colorized SVGs (with both single or multi-colored shapes) within SASS, with each SVG embedded as a data-URI.
Contributions:5 PRs, 62 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 5 months
gruntcolorizedsassurisvg
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