Nick Mccrea
Executive Director at Morgan Stanley
Greater Glasgow Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Mccrea is an experienced software engineering leader with 11 years of cross-industry experience spanning financial services and game development, currently serving as Executive Director at Morgan Stanley in Glasgow. He combines hands-on engineering skills in C#, C++ and SQL with a track record of managing and growing teams, delivering regulatory reporting systems, and leading mobile MMO development. Nick excels at technical leadership, project planning and release automation across diverse stacks (Java, Python, Django, WPF, KDB) and development cultures. A strong advocate for learning-focused teams, he drives knowledge-sharing through tech talks and hacker days and encourages engineers to broaden their skillsets. Unusually for a senior finance technologist, he retains deep product-rooted experience from shipping games and indie titles, which informs pragmatic, user-focused engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, BEng at The University of Edinburgh
Github Skills (4)
python4
json1
json-api1
api1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
NickMcCrea/SystemWars
Jan 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:385 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 9 months
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