Tim Mcdonald-bell
Senior Software Engineer at Freelance
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Mcdonald-bell is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building maintainable, convention-driven full-stack web applications, with a strong bias toward Ruby and Rails. He blends backend expertise and pragmatic design sense to deliver polished UX and well-tested, object-oriented systems, often preferring disposable code to speed iteration. Tim has progressed from instructor and hands-on developer roles to senior engineering positions at CharlieHR and Martello, and he also takes on freelance work, reflecting both team leadership and independent delivery. His background teaching intensive Rails courses shaped a collaborative, documentation-first workflow and an ability to turn complex ideas into clear learning materials and production features.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Biological & Biomedical Psychology, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Biological & Biomedical Psychology at The Manchester Metropolitan University
Github Skills (12)
rust6
linkedin-api5
ruby-wrapper5
previews5
linkedin4
react4
testing4
api3
api-client3
viewcomponent3
storybook2
ruby2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tmcdb/portfolio
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:26 PRs, 55 pushes, 27 branches in 2 months
CharlieHR/national-holidays-ruby
Apr 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 14 pushes in 3 years 7 months
nationalconfig
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