Sylvia Mclaughlin
Software Developer at Canadian Digital Service (CDS) / Service numérique canadien (SNC)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolSylvia Mclaughlin is a pragmatic software developer with five years of focused experience and a longer history of senior engineering and project leadership across library, mobile, and public-sector domains. She has led migrations from legacy systems to modern platforms, acting as architect, lead developer and project manager to deliver end-to-end solutions including ETL, backend, and frontend components. Comfortable mentoring teams and working directly with clients, she pairs hands-on coding (C++, Perl, Python, SQL, JS) with scoping, quoting and implementation oversight. At the Canadian Digital Service she applies that blend of technical depth and client-facing delivery to public-sector projects. Sylvia’s background includes building database engines, data migration tooling and product ownership for social apps—evidence of both systems-level thinking and product sensibility. Colleagues rely on her for pragmatic, maintainable solutions and to untangle complex data and integration challenges.
4 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (90)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
cds-snc/sentinel-forward-data-action
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
A github action that forwards data from a previous action to Sentinel
Contributions:22 reviews, 29 PRs, 59 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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cds-snc/backstage-scaffolder-templates
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Repository containing CDS managed Backstage Scaffolder templates
Contributions:45 reviews, 102 PRs, 101 pushes in 1 year
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