Mike Macdonald
Software Development Engineer at PillPack
New Britain, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolMike Macdonald is a seasoned Software Development Engineer with 16 years of experience building web applications, primarily with Ruby on Rails, and a track record that spans full-stack delivery from server provisioning to CSS. Currently at PillPack, he excels both as a high-output individual contributor and as a technical lead who mentors teams and drives revamps of complex legacy systems. His background includes building ETL tooling, contributing to microservices and Ember front-ends, and subcontracting as a Rails/Ember specialist, demonstrating adaptability across architectures and lifecycles. An active tinkerer, he authored a Rust koans project to deepen language fluency and incremental learning—an example of his curiosity beyond his Rails expertise. Based in New Britain, CT, he combines pragmatic engineering with a focus on maintainable, production-ready systems.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Central Connecticut State University
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Github Skills (17)
testing10
rust10
fileio9
file-access9
file-processing9
file-handling9
macros8
cargo8
version-control7
ruby-on-rails6
csrf6
ruby6
unit-testing6
assertion6
transaction6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
crazymykl/rust-koans
Aug 2015 - Mar 2020
Koans for the Rust programming language
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 28 PRs, 36 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on developing the core logic and functionality for the Rust koans project. They initiated the project by setting up the basic koan runner structure and implemented the initial koans, including the truth and addition. Further contributions involved refactoring the code to incrementally run koans and creating files for koan organization. These changes demonstrate a focus on problem-solving within the Rust programming language, and improving the Koan runner's functionality.
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crazymykl/r7-rs
Feb 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:49 commits, 2 PRs, 43 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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