Ross Macarthur
Senior Engineer at Thinkst Applied Research
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolRoss Macarthur is a senior software engineer based in Cape Town with a decade of experience building scalable backend systems across startups and enterprise teams. He specializes in Python and Go microservice architectures, real-time event streaming, and integrating complex third-party APIs—having architected systems that scaled a viral product to 300,000 concurrent users and enabled dynamic payments flows without mobile app updates. Ross has a strong device-to-cloud background from work on firmware, OTA updates and factory automation, and has repeatedly shaped engineering patterns to improve maintainability and developer experience. At Hunch he led backend design for AI-driven workflows and multi-provider integrations; he now applies that product-focused engineering to Thinkst Canary. Notably comfortable across infrastructure (Terraform, Kubernetes), CI/CD, and async job systems, he blends hands-on implementation with mentoring and operational ownership.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Cape Town
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Github Skills (200)
json-schema10
command-line-interface10
swagger10
axios10
cmark10
linter10
command-line-tool10
openapi10
client-library10
sarif10
argparse10
command-line-parser10
swagger-ui10
api10
pooling10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
rossmacarthur/zsh-plugin-manager-benchmark
Aug 2020 - Nov 2022
Benchmark the speed of different Zsh plugin managers
Contributions:4 reviews, 31 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 3 months
speedmanagerszsh-pluginbenchmarkzsh
rossmacarthur/emojis
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:4 reviews, 65 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 9 months
groupscrateemojifuzzyiterate
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