The University of Auckland

Dublin City University

Vetspire

Senior Software Engineer

Designed and developed mobility solutions product API features for browser, mobile apps, and third party integrations. Technologies used include Elixir, OTP, Phoenix Framework, Java, Spring, JavaScript/ES6, PostgreSQL.

Toyota Connected Europe

Senior Software Engineer Consultant

Designed and developed features for machine learning vision AI annotation and dataset management platform. Developed user notifications over websocket channels. Made enhancements to image annotation interface. Technologies used include Elixir, OTP, Phoenix Framework, Vue.js, ES6, TypeScript.

Senior Software Developer Consultant

Designed and implemented software for reference applications and conformance tools to demonstrate and test account access and payment initiation using the UK Open Banking API Standards. Technologies used include Elixir, Phoenix Framework, Go, Node.js, and Vue.js.

Providing feedback to the development of banking API standards for the next generation of fintech and finance applications and services operating under regulatory requirements including PSD2 and GDPR.

Open Banking

Worked on improving the conversion rate of the carwow website through full-stack development in Rails of page variants and AB split-testing. Configured Google Tag Manager and Analytics to view metrics segmented by landing page variant. Optimised active record DB queries to reduce uncached page load times to improve site performance. Technologies used include Ruby on Rails 5.*, PostgreSQL.

carwow

Provided agile software development services and open data consultancy to the Register Design Authority at the Government Digital Service (GDS). Technologies used include Elixir, Phoenix Framework, Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.

Developed extract, transform, load tools to manage the process from moving from a dataset to a public register with a data custodian. Developed prototypes of register usage including a school finder service. Built an API client library.

Government Digital Service

Provided agile software development services to the Ministry of Justice Digital and Technology division, designing and building significant ‘exemplar’ digital public services. Focused on validated learning through lean metrics, and developing reusable software components, in particular for service interface development. Technologies used include Ruby, Rails 4.2, Javascript, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.

Ministry of Justice Digital

Tech Lead / Senior Software Developer Consultant

Provided agile software development services for development of real-time media-rich application for viewing multiple live video streams and real time statistics. Technologies used include Rails 3.2, ZeroMQ, and MongoDB.

Farncombe Technology

Lead Ruby Developer Consultant

Developed software for online marketplace where individuals can lend money directly to small businesses in the UK via loan auctions.

Funding Circle UK

Lead Developer

Co-founded and developed web application that provides data access and reconciliation services to structured company data. Service currently provides access to information on over 179 million companies across dozens of countries and jurisdictions.

OpenCorporates

Technical co-founder

Provide agile software development services and consultancy to public and private sector clients. Work in close collaboration with business teams and product owners to apply lean startup techniques, including business-hypothesis-driven development, iterative product releases, and validated learning.

Moving Flow

Owner and consultant

Provided agile software development services and consultancy to a small service prototyping team within the UK Parliament. Public facing deployments include:
- a prototype website allowing users to explore historic Hansard from 1803-2005,
- a service to find your MP, and contact them via web form.

UK Parliament

Software developer consultant

Developed trading services platform linking institutional investors and sell-side firms. Facilitated order routing, execution management, clearing and STP across all asset classes including equities, fixed income and derivatives.

TradingScreen

Software developer

Developed a derivatives trading and risk management system in Java; enabling companies in the global energy markets to enter transactions, process trades and evaluate risks and net positions.

Sakonnet Technology

Software engineer

Produced middleware products and mobile-commerce solutions for the global financial sector.

Rob McKinnon