Stewart Mcgown
Staff Software Engineer at ClickUp
Greater Edinburgh Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolStewart Mcgown is a Staff Software Engineer and former CTO with 13 years of experience building scalable full‑stack products and leading engineering teams from early startups to high‑growth SaaS. He co‑founded ecoeats, growing it to multi‑million platform sales while single‑handedly developing cross‑platform React Native apps and a real‑time logistics backend running on bare‑metal Kubernetes. At ClickUp he progressed from shipping features that turned Docs into edge‑rendered sites to tech leading the ClickUp Chat product, demonstrating rapid impact in large Angular and NestJS codebases. Stewart combines hands‑on backend optimisation (e.g., multithreaded chunked uploads in his open repo) with product instincts honed as an operator, and brings a maker’s curiosity — he was briefly “internet famous” as an ex‑CTO. Based in Edinburgh, he pairs a St Andrews Computer Science degree with hobbies like bass guitar, mountain biking and Brazilian Jiu‑Jitsu that mirror his collaborative, disciplined approach to engineering.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The James Young High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of St Andrews
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Github Skills (13)
algorithm10
data-structures10
algorithms10
base6410
back-end-development10
python10
typehinting6
google-forms6
nodejs6
typescript6
google-apps-script6
latex6
javascript6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
stewartmcgown/uds
Jul 2018 - Nov 2020
Unlimited Drive Storage by splitting binary files into base64
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:83 commits, 21 PRs, 59 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Stewart primarily contributed to the back-end development of the project. Their work involved implementing functionality related to uploading, downloading, and reconstructing files split into base64 encoded parts, which included addressing decoding issues and refactoring code to handle chunked uploads. They also added file listing functionality and enhanced the system by incorporating a multithreaded upload process. The changes demonstrate a focus on core logic, data handling, and optimization for the project's central feature.
unlimitedgoogle-drivesplittingbase64python3
stewartmcgown/grammarly-api
Aug 2019 - Jun 2021
Unofficial TypeScript client for the Grammarly API
Contributions:37 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 9 months
apitypescriptgrammarlygrammarly-api
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