Struan Mcdonough
Senior Platform Engineer
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolStruan Mcdonough is a Senior Platform Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native platforms, full-stack applications, and developer communities across startups and consultancies. He combines hands-on AWS and infrastructure-as-code expertise (Terraform, CloudFormation, serverless) with a track record of leading and scaling engineering teams and capability programs for 90+ engineers. As founder of Prisma he translated a personal drive for ethical, bias-reducing hiring into a product mindset—bootstrapping a tool that puts fairness at the centre of recruitment. Comfortable shipping both backend Lambdas and responsive TypeScript frontends, he also focuses on observability, security automations and developer experience. Based in Manchester, he’s an active mentor and public speaker who pairs technical depth with a persistent interest in cultural diversity—he even tunes that curiosity into learning multiple languages while playing guitar, ukulele and bagpipes.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computer Science and Mathematics, BSc (Hons) Computer Science and Mathematics at The University of ManchesterComputing Mathematics & Economics, Computing Mathematics & Economics at Devonport High School for Boys
English, French, Japanese, Russian
Stackoverflow
119reputation
8kreached
3answers
5questions
Github Skills (46)
scrolling10
slide9
prefixes9
jquery9
snap9
directories9
fullscreen9
serverless-plugin9
mousewheel8
serverless-framework8
aws8
slideshow8
javascript8
minecraft7
lambda7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
VirtualVirtuoso/vspace
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 4 months
unigreat
VirtualVirtuoso/VideoTextures
Oct 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:47 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
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