Nicholas Mccready
Lead Software Engineer at Capital One
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Mccready is a lead software engineer with 13 years of professional experience and over 23 years of hands-on engineering practice, currently driving scalable cloud and developer-experience initiatives at Capital One. He blends backend systems expertise in Golang, Node.js, AWS (Lambda, Step Functions, CloudFormation) and Postgres with front-end skills in React and Angular, and a strong bias toward modularization, stability and observability. A pragmatic full-stack tinkerer and open-source contributor, he has improved core tooling like gulp-sourcemaps and contributed higher-order React components and map integrations that emphasize debuggability and source maps. He’s led large refactors, CI/CD and private cloud efforts, and optimized high-throughput gRPC middleware for production systems. Based in Virginia, he balances deep technical leadership with mentoring and community work—recently coordinating youth lacrosse programs while maintaining an active role in developer tooling and platform reliability.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
General Education, General Education at South Carroll High SchoolMasters of Science, Computer Science, Masters of Science, Computer Science at Virginia Commonwealth UniversityBachelor of Science, Mathematics , Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Mathematics , Computer Science at University of Lynchburg
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (28)
javascript10
ui-design10
sourcemaps10
gruntjs10
uid10
front-end-development10
angularjs10
gulpjs10
html10
g10
build-process10
react10
react-native9
react-native-component9
debugging9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
angular-ui/angular-google-maps
Jul 2013 - Nov 2018
AngularJS directives for the Google Maps Javascript API
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1691 commits, 206 PRs, 487 pushes in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily worked on the user interface aspects of the Angular Google Maps project. Their commits focused on ensuring the proper rendering of various map types. This includes improving the visual layout of the map types and, in one instance, a change of an input.
angularjs-directivegoogle-maps-javascript-api
gulp-sourcemaps/gulp-sourcemaps
Oct 2016 - Nov 2020
Sourcemap support for gulpjs.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 115 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to the `gulp-sourcemaps/gulp-sourcemaps` repository, a project related to source map support for Gulp.js. Their work involved merging code from other contributors, bumping dependencies, fixing typos, and addressing specific issues related to array checking and CSS processing. Furthermore, the user integrated `debug-fabulous` for more effective debugging. These contributions suggest a focus on maintaining and improving the core functionality of the source map integration within the Gulp ecosystem.
gulpjs
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