Pete Mcvicar
Software Engineering Manager at Workday
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolPete Mcvicar is a seasoned software engineering manager based in Dublin with 11+ years leading cross-border teams to deliver large-scale, multilingual web platforms for global brands like the BBC, LexisNexis, Pernod Ricard and Al Jazeera. He translates business strategy into resilient, API-driven platforms that have handled millions of weekly users and up to 5–10 billion telematics transactions per month, while reducing time-to-market and operating costs. Comfortable at both strategic and technical levels, he embeds CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code and event-driven architectures using AWS, Azure, Terraform, Node.js and PHP, and has led complex cloud migrations and big-data integrations. A people-first leader, he builds high-performing teams from recruitment through career coaching and promotion, and still stays hands-on with architecture and tooling when it adds value. Notably, he’s delivered multi-brand content platforms supporting 160 markets and managed GDPR-compliant telematics systems ingesting real-time connected-vehicle data—demonstrating rare domain depth across consumer and data-intensive enterprise products.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Web & Mobile Development Technologies, Master of Science (MSc), Web & Mobile Development Technologies at Northumbria University
Github Skills (49)
aws8
storage8
amplify8
aws-s38
cloud-services7
javascript7
recorder7
aws-amplify7
amazon-translate7
react7
aws-apigateway6
aws-mobile6
nodejs6
pouchdb6
sst6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mcvicar/GameShowHost
May 2019 - Jun 2023
Making a multiplayer Jepody style game with socket.io
Contributions:33 PRs, 45 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
socketgamesocket-iopartynodejs
mcvicar/trAWSlate
Jan 2020 - Mar 2022
Want to use Amazon Translate, but used your own "proprietary" json format for your translations and now have to convert everything into AWS's proprietary format?
Contributions:23 commits, 15 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 years 1 month
everythingtranslationsproprietaryamazonjson-format
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