Michael Mcnamara
Software Engineer In Test at Coactiva Aspiren
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarMichael Mcnamara is a Software Engineer in Test based in London with 11 years of experience building quality into news-scale web products at The Guardian. He has progressed through QA lead and automation roles into an engineering-in-test position, blending hands-on test automation with full-stack contributions—most notably improving AMP-related front-end rendering and video detection in the high-profile guardian/frontend repo. Comfortable across test frameworks and front-end codepaths, he focuses on making complex publishing pipelines more correct and maintainable. His background includes leadership roles in QA and management at Coactiva, giving him strong cross-functional communication and process-improvement instincts. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambiguous production issues into reliable test coverage and pragmatic engineering fixes.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
front-end-development10
google-amp10
ampl10
testing9
html9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
Feb 2015 - Apr 2017
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:50 commits, 78 PRs, 119 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael's commits primarily involve modifying and testing the `AmpEmbedCleaner` class, suggesting a focus on front-end development within the context of rendering and cleaning HTML for AMP pages. Contributions include refactoring the code to remove comments and vestigial tests. The user added tests to enhance the detection of external videos and fixed incorrect location designations in the footer. These actions indicate a focus on improving the functionality and correctness of components used within the `guardian/frontend` repository.
productionguardian
guardian/capi-wpt-querybot
Jan 2016 - May 2022
Measure the size of GNM webpages and alert if greater than predefined threshold
Contributions:409 PRs, 479 pushes, 337 branches in 6 years 5 months
alertthresholdwebpagesgreater-thanmeasure
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