Neil Macdougall
Director Of Engineering, UI UX at SUSE
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Macdougall is a seasoned software engineering leader with a decade of recent hands-on experience in cloud-native UI/UX and open source, currently directing UI/UX engineering for Rancher at SUSE from Bristol. He combines strategic engineering leadership with front-end craftsmanship—contributing directly to Rancher's UI to improve embedding, dark mode, performance toggles and other user-facing features for a widely used container management platform. Prior roles include long-tenured architecture and management experience at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and a technical leadership stint at SUSE, giving him deep familiarity with scalable enterprise systems. Known for bridging product, design and engineering, he pushes pragmatic UX improvements while maintaining platform reliability. He holds an MEng with Distinction from the University of Surrey and brings a bias for shipping incremental, embeddable UI solutions that enable larger cloud-native workflows.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) with Distinction Information Systems, Master of Engineering (MEng) with Distinction Information Systems at University of Surrey
Github Skills (12)
uid10
javascript10
rancher10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
ember10
kubernetes-pods9
css9
kubernetes9
container8
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rancher/ui
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Rancher UI
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:46 reviews, 158 commits, 206 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Neil primarily focused on enhancing the Rancher UI's user experience and functionality. They implemented features to support embedding the UI within other dashboards, adding functionalities such as before-navigation events, and allowing the UI to communicate with the parent frame. They also addressed UI styling and layout issues related to embedding and dark mode, while also fixing minor UI issues such as truncation and alignment.
reactdockerrancherembercattle
rancher/rancher
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
Complete container management platform
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 5 commits, 11 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Neil primarily contributed to the user interface aspects of the Rancher platform. Their work involved adding and configuring UI settings, including custom favicons, performance toggles, and banner configurations. The commits also included the addition of a new feature flag related to RKE1 UI toggle, and minor adjustments such as fixing typos, formatting and white spaces in UI related settings. The contributions are focused on enhancing and customizing the user experience.
containersorchestrationdockerrancherkubernetes
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