Paul Mackay
Head Of Engineering at Provenance
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Mackay is a Head of Engineering with 13 years of experience leading product and platform teams to deliver transparent, impact-focused digital products at Provenance. He combines hands-on Ruby on Rails backend work and frontend technologies with an interest in Domain-Driven Design, open source, data and standards to structure resilient systems that surface social and environmental impact. His contributions to projects like openfoodnetwork show practical experience adding backend features, email/reporting workflows and background job processing for community-focused marketplaces. A former technical director and long-time collaborator across civic tech initiatives (including Code for Europe and RSA fellowship), he enjoys applying digital tools to strengthen local food systems and community resilience. Paul balances strategic leadership with active coding and continuous learning, often exploring how standards and open data can increase transparency and reuse.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems Engineering MEng Computer Science Electronic Engineering, Information Systems Engineering MEng Computer Science Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London
English
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Github Skills (9)
ruby-rails10
rails10
actionmailer10
ruby10
postgresql9
f8
cytoscapejs6
openid6
oauth6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
openfoodfoundation/openfoodnetwork
Mar 2014 - Jan 2017
Connect suppliers, distributors and consumers to trade local produce.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 commits, 19 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Paul focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the openfoodnetwork repository, primarily by implementing features related to producer email notifications and order cycle reports. They added and modified mailers, controllers, and jobs to facilitate these email communications, including incorporating receival time and instructions. The user also addressed localization aspects and improved the email reporting format. They further enhanced the application by integrating a delayed job system for background task processing.
farmersdistributorsrailsnonprofitfood
folklabs/openlocal
May 2013 - Apr 2016
Contributions:177 commits, 57 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years
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