Philip Mcgavin
Senior Developer at INDY Cinema Group
Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Mcgavin is a Senior Developer based in Dundee with nine years of professional experience and five years focused on building and managing data pipelines and internal tooling. He has a strong academic background with a first-class BSc in Mathematics and Physics and a PhD in Applied Mathematics, which informs his analytical approach to software engineering. Philip excels at rapid iteration with internal customers and cross-functional teams, turning feedback into practical, production-ready features. Notable projects include digitising the 1921 census and migrating a newspaper Solr cluster into Kubernetes, demonstrating both data-handling and cloud-native operational skills. He currently applies this blend of data, infrastructure, and user-focused development at INDY Cinema Group after several progressive roles at Findmypast. Colleagues would describe him as methodical, curious, and skilled at translating complex datasets into usable systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Physics, 1st Class Honours, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Physics, 1st Class Honours at The University of Dundee
Github Skills (20)
rake6
prometheus-exporter5
rails5
upstream5
monitoring5
zap4
prometheus4
ruby3
golang3
analytics3
testing2
elixir1
typescript1
solr1
docker1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pdsmcgavin/wrestling-elo
Jan 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:387 commits, 3 PRs, 315 pushes in 1 year 9 months
McGavInvincible/rootsroutes
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:62 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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