Ryan Macgillivray
Senior Software Engineer at Carwow
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRyan Macgillivray is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and leading engineering teams across UK tech and government projects, currently at Carwow. He blends hands-on Ruby/Rails and backend experience with strong Agile practices—regularly running retrospectives and coaching teams in TDD and delivery. Ryan has a track record of lifting code quality, introducing testing culture and mentoring engineers, having led academy programs and technical teams at organisations like FutureLearn, Made Tech and Zen Educate. Comfortable working directly with stakeholders, he helps shape product roadmaps and translate user needs into pragmatic engineering outcomes. Based in England, he pairs consulting and leadership experience with a practical, delivery-focused approach that prioritises team health as much as shipping features.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computing (Games Development), Bachelor of Science Computing (Games Development) at Abertay UniversityScottish Highers and Intermediates Computing English French Chemistry Maths, Scottish Highers and Intermediates Computing English French Chemistry Maths at Holy Rood High School
English
Github Skills (144)
container10
publisher10
puppet9
hotel-booking9
api9
html9
ruby9
mvc9
lua9
neovim9
admin9
rails9
tdd9
nvim8
activerecord8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
RyanMacG/sbcdb
Dec 2012 - Oct 2013
Contributions:201 commits in 10 months
RyanMacG/url-shortener-code-test
Jan 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:4 PRs, 31 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
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