Niall Mccullagh
Principal Software Engineer at Bazaarvoice
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNiall Mccullagh is a Principal Software Engineer with 17+ years of hands-on experience architecting and building cloud-native platforms for startups and global enterprises that process hundreds of millions of transactions. He blends daily coding with strategic leadership, defining availability, security and performance standards while mentoring teams and shaping technical direction across product, infrastructure and data. His background ranges from founding payments architecture at fintech startups to leading payment security at scale and delivering global e-commerce payment systems. Comfortable in both serverless and container ecosystems on AWS, he favors documentation-first API design and pragmatic experimentation to accelerate time-to-market. Based in Belfast, he’s happiest balancing architecture, leadership and code—often translating complex technical strategy into clear business outcomes for C-suite stakeholders.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) with Honours Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) with Honours Computer Science at Ulster University
Github Skills (83)
infrastructure10
dx10
microservices10
graph10
service-catalog10
backstage10
docker-compose9
terraform9
aws9
server-side8
hashicorp8
golang8
terraform-cloud8
terraform-module8
docker8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
niallmccullagh/docker-google-cloud-emulators
Mar 2017 - Feb 2021
Google cloud pubsub and datastore emulators hosted in docker
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 3 years 11 months
gcpemulatorshostedgoogle-cloud-platformdocker
niallmccullagh/dotfiles
Jan 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:34 commits, 48 pushes in 4 years 2 months
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