Nick Mcmahon
Technical Lead at Financial Conduct Authority
Penistone, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Mcmahon is a Technical Lead with eight years of experience modernising large-scale public sector systems, currently driving a user-research-led programme to modernise over 200 FCA business functions using a strangler-fig approach. He blends hands-on engineering (Java Spring Boot, Kotlin, AWS, Kubernetes) with people leadership—mentoring security and accessibility champions, establishing operability practices, and running squad health checks to turn team issues into development opportunities. Nick has repeatedly shaped cloud platform and DevOps culture at scale, helping design an AWS Landing Zone-based platform for 800+ teams and championing automation, CI/CD simplification and developer experience. He has a strong track record of reducing incident rates and improving performance by moving legacy services to stateless, event-driven microservices and improving observability. Known for pragmatic architectural decision-making and stakeholder engagement, he pairs technical depth with an ability to translate operational needs into roadmaps and measurable service improvements. Based in Penistone, England, he brings a consistent focus on runbook maturity and operability that often goes unnoticed until systems are running smoothly in production.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) (Hons) Software Development, Bachelor of Science (BSc) (Hons) Software Development at The University of HuddersfieldBachelor of Technology (BTEC) Software Development E-Business, Bachelor of Technology (BTEC) Software Development E-Business at Huddersfield New College
Github Skills (108)
cloud-platform10
correspondence10
raspberry-pi-camera10
raspberry-pi-pico10
shift10
raspberry10
calculator9
pattern9
backend-api9
asciidoc9
api8
backend8
moj-cloud-platform8
documentation8
asl8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
UKHomeOffice/core-cloud
Jun 2023 - Mar 2024
SAS Core Cloud Documentation
Contributions:35 reviews, 32 PRs, 56 pushes in 9 months
cloud-platform
UKHomeOffice/hocs-docs-converter
Sep 2018 - Mar 2023
Contributions:35 reviews, 168 PRs, 224 pushes in 4 years 7 months
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