Liam Mcandrew
Engineering Manager at GitLab Inc.
Reigate and Banstead, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolLiam Mcandrew is an engineering manager with 11 years’ experience building scalable web services and payments platforms, currently leading teams at GitLab. He combines deep technical expertise in service-oriented and message-based architectures (RabbitMQ, API design, Ruby/JRuby) with fintech domain knowledge including forex, FIX/SWIFT, payments and crypto. Previously he scaled engineering at Currencycloud from technical lead to Head of Engineering, shipping resilient, secure payment APIs and platforms. Liam blends hands-on architecture and TDD/BDD practices with operational tooling (Ansible, Linux, Mac) and ISO 27001-aware delivery, helping teams balance speed with compliance. Colleagues know him for turning complex financial flows into auditable, maintainable systems and for bringing product-minded engineering leadership to regulated environments.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, BSc (Hons), Computer Science at City, University of London
English
Github Skills (4)
api8
ruby6
java2
wrapper2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
liamm/test-lfs
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
liamm/simpleapp
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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