Rupert Mckay
Principal Engineer at ODIDO
Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRupert Mckay is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building user-facing web platforms, currently leading portal architecture and quality standards at Odido in the Netherlands. He specializes in React, TypeScript and Jest, and has a track record of turning greenfield ideas into revenue-driving B2C products like Klik&Klaar and SimWallet. Rupert combines deep technical leadership—having scaled a team from one to nearly fifty—with a passion for testing, accessibility and front-end performance that cut page loads from seconds to hundreds of milliseconds. He’s equally comfortable mentoring and hiring as he is coding, having led training programs with high pass rates and conducted the majority of early interviews for growing teams. Pragmatic and curious, he frequently champions migrations and tooling improvements (e.g., CSS modules adoption) to raise team velocity and maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of BathMathematics and Economics, Mathematics and Economics at University of Warwick
Github Skills (79)
relation10
javascript10
jsdom10
documentation10
react10
boids9
testing9
editable9
scrolling9
mocking9
api8
internationalization8
react-component8
remix8
docusaurus8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
fildon/ceramic
Feb 2021 - Aug 2021
React component library
Contributions:2 reviews, 47 commits, 4 PRs in 5 months
react-componentreactreact-component-librarytypescriptcomponent-library
fildon/webgltest
Jan 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:1 review, 9 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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