Louis Mclennan
Director Of Network Strategy
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolLouis Mclennan is a telecommunications leader with 15 years’ experience who now directs global network strategy from Queensland, Australia, designing and procuring large-scale data center connectivity while managing capacity upgrades and operational risk. He progressed through hands-on engineering and NOC leadership to senior roles at Megaport, bringing practical expertise in network stability, asset replacement programs, and cross-functional product delivery. Comfortable bridging technical and commercial worlds, Louis has implemented PostgreSQL support in an open-source DB migration tool and contributed front-end learning material for JavaScript, signaling a blend of systems thinking and developer empathy. Known for creating clear career pathways and turning around operational KPIs, he combines disciplined change control from industrial roles with a strategic outlook on global network infrastructure.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology, with Distinction, Bachelor of Information Technology, with Distinction at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Anglican Church Grammar School (Churchie)
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Github Skills (38)
javascript10
postgresql10
coffeescript10
net10
dotnet10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
scopes10
typed-array9
multidimensional-arrays9
testing9
npgsql9
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
liammclennan/JavaScript-Koans
Oct 2010 - Jan 2022
javascript koans is an interactive learning environment that uses failing tests to introduce students to aspects of JavaScript in a logical sequence.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:54 commits, 41 PRs, 7 pushes in 11 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Louis primarily focused on completing and updating JavaScript Koans, an interactive learning environment for JavaScript. Their contributions involved implementing test cases and modifying code examples within the koans to teach concepts such as prototypal inheritance, scope, truthiness, operators, equality, control structures, arrays, objects, strings, numbers, functions, and regular expressions. The user also made minor improvements, such as typo fixes and code formatting, indicating an effort to refine the educational content.
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DbUp/DbUp
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
DbUp is a .NET library that helps you to deploy changes to SQL Server databases. It tracks which SQL scripts have been run already, and runs the change scripts that are needed to get your database up to date.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:12 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Louis primarily focused on adding support for PostgreSQL to the DbUp library, creating a new project and connection manager for PostgreSQL integration. Their contributions include setting up the necessary project structure and dependencies for PostgreSQL. They also implemented a PostgreSQL table journal for tracking database migrations. Furthermore, the user added unit tests to validate the PostgreSQL implementation and functionality.
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