Steve Mcleod
Founder at Feature Upvote
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolSteve Mcleod is a seasoned founder and software engineer with 14 years of professional experience and two decades of hands-on development, currently running a bootstrapped B2B SaaS, Feature Upvote, from Barcelona. He specializes in building simple, usable, scalable web products that help organizations collect and prioritize customer feedback, and his tools are translated and used globally. A longtime Java developer, he also contributes to low-level database work (notably improving H2 database date/time handling, query optimization and bit-field functions), blending product intuition with backend and database engineering. His career spans consultancy for major financial institutions to founding multiple software consultancies, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability, performance and user-centered design.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The University of Western Australia
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Github Skills (36)
datetime10
query-optimization10
datetimes10
java10
uuid10
javas10
h2-database10
sql10
database-design10
xml10
swing10
mysql9
pretty-print9
testing9
jbutton9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
codefollower/H2-Research
May 2012 - Feb 2017
H2数据库源代码学习研究(包括代码注释、文档、用于代码分析的测试用例)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Database Engineer
Backend Developer & Database EngineerContributions:15 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the H2 database codebase, focusing on enhancements related to database event handling, date/time utilities, and query optimization. They implemented features like the `BITGET` function for bit field manipulation and added index hints for query optimization. The user also fixed date-handling errors and improved the performance of time zone offset calculations.
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barbarysoftware/Linkifier
Apr 2023 - Apr 2024
A Java library to detect URLs in plain-text strings and convert them to HTML anchor tags. Inspired by linkifyjs.
Contributions:18 releases, 3 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 year
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