Michael Mcfadyen
Senior Software Engineer at Sky
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichael McFadyen is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years’ experience building resilient, high-performance RESTful microservices for Sky’s Online Video Platform, currently focused on APIs that power SkyGo, NOW TV and SkyQ. He brings hands-on expertise across Java ecosystems (Dropwizard, Ratpack, Spring Boot), testing and CI/CD tooling, and operational monitoring (ELK, Grafana, Jenkins), with a strong practice of TDD/BDD and on-call production support. Having progressed from graduate engineer to senior roles within Sky, he combines deep platform knowledge with a pragmatic approach to feature delivery and reliability at scale. Based in Edinburgh, he balances engineering rigor with creative pursuits—an avid guitarist and long-standing golf club member—bringing teamwork and performance under pressure from both studio and fairway.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
St. Margaret's AcademyBachelor of Science (BSc), Computing Science, 2:1, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computing Science, 2:1 at The University of Glasgow
English
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Github Skills (45)
udp10
spring10
spring-security10
ipc10
java10
mono10
client-server10
quic10
tcp10
spring-boot10
flux10
reactor10
netty9
reactive9
monitoring9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
michaelmcfadyen/yml-for-gatling
Jun 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 9 months
michaelmcfadyen/spring-boot
Sep 2018 - Jan 2020
Spring Boot
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 year 4 months
spring-bootspring-datawebclientspringjava
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