Michael Macdonald
Senior Software Engineer & Technical Lead at Star Class
Canberra, Australia
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Top SchoolMichael Macdonald is a Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead based in Canberra with 17 years of hands-on experience building Ruby on Rails applications and leading teams to deliver reliable web systems. He currently drives engineering at ReadyTech and runs his long-standing owner-operated consultancy Star Class, blending product-minded leadership with deep implementation experience. His background includes long-term Rails development and devops work for organizations like the Australian Medical Council, CSIRO and SciNews, where he built and maintained a custom media-release platform. With a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from ANU, he brings analytical rigor to architecture and troubleshooting, and an uncommon mix of public-sector, scientific and entrepreneurial perspectives that helps translate complex domain requirements into pragmatic software.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityHigh School Certificate, High School Certificate at Hillston Central School
English
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Github Skills (82)
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jquery9
html9
ruby9
terminology9
mvc9
session-cookie9
omniauth9
prawn9
simple-api9
knockoutjs9
passwords9
survey9
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rdytech/patches
Jun 2016 - Aug 2022
One off tasks/database patches that, optionally, run outside the deploy process
Contributions:3 releases, 5 reviews, 10 commits in 6 years 2 months
cappatchesdatabaseoutsideterminology
jobready/exportling
Jan 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:5 PRs, 6 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 8 months
csvexportpdfrailsrails-engine
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