Neil Mclaughlin
Lead Software Developer at DEFRA
Harrogate, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Mclaughlin is a Lead Software Developer with 13 years of hands‑on experience building .NET systems and coaching teams across the full software development lifecycle. He combines deep domain knowledge—from healthcare and legal to vehicle tracking and radiation monitoring—with practical leadership in transitioning teams to agile and lean practices using both Kanban and Scrum. Frequently acting as an agile coach and trainer, he has designed and delivered workshops on SOLID, TDD and pair programming while also driving delivery as a hands‑on C# lead. Based in Harrogate, he currently leads software development at DEFRA and has a track record of kickstarting greenfield projects and stabilising release processes in both public and private sectors. Notably, he co‑organises the Agile Yorkshire community, reflecting a commitment to spreading practical agile skills beyond his teams.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Post-Graduate Diploma, Software Engineering, Post-Graduate Diploma, Software Engineering at The Open UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Github Skills (100)
relation10
docker-image10
pharmacy10
api9
command-line-interface9
dockerfile9
azure-search9
hydrogen9
azure-function-app9
nodejs9
azure8
rebuild8
rest8
pgsql8
azure-cli8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
neilbmclaughlin/release-test
Mar 2024 - Mar 2024
Contributions:24 releases, 136 PRs, 288 pushes in 15 days
neilbmclaughlin/flood-app
Mar 2024 - Apr 2024
Contributions:22 releases, 308 PRs, 282 pushes in 1 month
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