Scott Mackay
Developer Authority at SThree
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorScott Mackay is a seasoned software leader and Developer Authority based in Glasgow with over two decades of experience building web and systems software to automate complex business processes. He combines deep hands-on expertise in .NET, microservices, enterprise architecture and DevOps with a track record of leading teams, establishing agile practices and delivering ERP-integrated e-commerce and process automation solutions. At MacLean he grew from senior developer to development manager, recruiting and mentoring teams while shaping strategy and board-level technical direction. Now at SThree he continues to drive architectural and delivery excellence, and his open-source contributions to the popular ServiceStack project include serialization, validation and structured logging enhancements that improve real-world error handling and observability. Calm under pressure and an effective communicator with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, he has a knack for turning domain knowledge into pragmatic, scalable systems.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
serilog10
data-serialization10
serialization10
netframework10
fluentvalidation10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
webservice9
webpages7
web-content7
servicestack6
configurations6
roslyn6
structuremap6
xunit6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ServiceStack/ServiceStack
Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
Thoughtfully architected, obscenely fast, thoroughly enjoyable web services for all
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 7 PRs, 11 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on enhancing the ServiceStack framework by implementing and refining serialization and validation features. The commits demonstrate work on a wire serializer implementation and included the ability to specify severity for validation errors, improving error handling. Further contributions involved updating FluentValidation and Serilog dependencies and implementing Serilog-based structured logging capabilities.
actionscriptcsvxmlnet-frameworkframework
wwwlicious/ServiceStack.Quartz
Nov 2017 - May 2020
Easy job scheduling for ServiceStack.
Contributions:4 releases, 52 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 5 months
servicestackschedulingscheduled-tasksjob-schedulerjob
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