Phil Mcclure
Principal Engineer And Co-founder at Stora
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPhil Mcclure is a Principal Engineer and serial co-founder with 17 years of experience building distributed applications and leading engineering teams from Belfast. He specializes in backend systems, particularly with Elixir, Erlang and Ruby, and has deep hands-on experience designing infrastructure on AWS using Terraform, RDS/Postgres and CloudFront. Phil has repeatedly scaled startups from idea to production—co-founding Yomo and Lowdown and now leading Stora—while also shipping front-end and API work when needed. His background includes driving CI/TDD practices, owning architecture decisions, and mentoring teams through complex technical trade-offs. Outside day-to-day engineering he writes about his work and experiments publicly (blog and projects like GetYomo), reflecting a practical curiosity that informs both product and platform choices.
16 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Honours) Computing, BSc (Honours) Computing at The Open UniversityBangor Academy and Sixth Form College
English
Stackoverflow
119reputation
9kreached
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7questions
Github Skills (108)
timezone10
client-side-validation9
cron9
tableplus9
elixir9
mailjet9
music8
api8
audio8
liveview8
gocardless8
scheduler8
mangopay8
ruby8
experiences8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
overture8/green_light
Aug 2014 - Oct 2015
Simple client side validation for Rails that keeps validation in the models
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 2 months
validationclient-siderailsclient-side-validationruby
PiggyPot/mailjex
Jul 2017 - Jun 2019
Elixir wrapper for the MailJet API
Contributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 11 months
apimailjet-apielixirmailjet
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