Matthew Mcnicol
Software Developer at NHS Tayside
Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Mcnicol is a seasoned software developer based in Dundee with 14 years of industry experience and a strong Java focus, currently rebuilding NHS Tayside's clinical portal and building integration engines for a new patient administration system. He combines deep legacy and enterprise experience—from mainframe and DB administration to Linux deployments—with modern Java microservices and production support in Health IT. Open to contract Java roles, he is actively looking to broaden his cloud experience and explore Go, reflecting a pragmatic interest in polyglot backend development. His career shows steady technical continuity and customer-facing responsibility, including mentoring and identity/access work on shorter engagements. With a Software Engineering degree and an MBA, he pairs technical craft with business awareness, making him effective at translating clinical requirements into reliable, auditable systems. An understated strength is his longevity in healthcare software, giving him rare institutional knowledge that accelerates safe, regulated deployments.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Business Administration, PASS, Master's degree, Business Administration, PASS at Edinburgh Napier UniversityProgramming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mmcnicol/tayport-community-website
Jul 2017 - Mar 2025
A community website project
Contributions:1 PR, 320 pushes, 6 branches in 7 years 8 months
project-websitecommunity-website
mmcnicol/StratConClone
Oct 2011 - Jun 2012
Contributions:63 commits in 8 months
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