Peter Mcneil
Senior Software Engineer at Sportable
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPeter Mcneil is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years’ experience building high-throughput, resilient backend systems for large-scale audiences. He has driven technical delivery for BBC election products that served 20–25 million users with zero downtime and led the design of a Scala-native financial markets API handling over 1M WAU. Skilled across Go, Scala, Java, AWS and data stores like Postgres and MongoDB, he combines hands-on engineering with mentoring and team enablement. Now at Sportable, he continues to focus on reliable, event-driven architectures and rapid product delivery. A First Class Software Engineering graduate who began his career in BBC News backend systems, he brings proven operational discipline and a knack for turning complex, time-sensitive requirements into simple, reliable services.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree (Honours) Sandwich, Software Engineering, First Class Honours, Bachelor’s Degree (Honours) Sandwich, Software Engineering, First Class Honours at University of BrightonMaths, Biology, Physics, Maths, Biology, Physics at Bristol Grammar School
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Github contributions (5)
petermcneil/lodge
Jan 2019 - Jul 2021
A video steganography tool; combining video files and subtitles
Contributions:3 releases, 110 commits, 20 PRs in 2 years 6 months
pythonvideo-filesvideosubtitlessteganography
petermcneil/drop
Feb 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:8 releases, 55 commits, 50 pushes in 4 months
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