Test driven development
Marc McIntosh
Software Engineer
Paris
Summary
Seasoned software engineer experienced developing applications and cloud computing solutions. Friendly professional with a dedication to writing well crafted software.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Software Engineer
Small Magellanic Cloud Ai Ltd
11.2023 - Current
- Design, develop, and maintain shared code for VS Code and JetBrains plugins from scratch, enabling users to interact with AI programming assistants.
- Developed reusable components that significantly reduced development effort on multiple projects.
- Integrated new technologies into existing systems, increasing capabilities and improving overall performance.
- Technolgoies used: React, redux, Kotlin and Typescript
Software Engineer
Prismic
05.2019 - 11.2023
- Updated old code bases to modern development standards, improving functionality which included migrating features from a monolithic scala backend to typescript micro-services.
- Represented software engineering team during large and complex development projects.
- Helped introduce a quality focused mindset to the engineering team.
- Technologies used: React, Scala and Node.js
Technical Support Manager
Traffective GmbH
02.2019 - 05.2019
- Tailored native advertisements on clients websites using in-house tools, javascript, and css.
- Intergraded an additional real time bidding service.
Junior Software Engineer
HolidayCheck AG
09.2018 - 12.2018
- Participate in daily katas.
- Study and practice topics of software engineering including test driven development, extreme programming, and continuous integration.
- Sharing knowledge and ideas with other junior engineers.
Front-end Software Engineer
Brainnwave Technologies Limited
08.2016 - 11.2016
- Employed coding practices based on commonly accepted standards to establish site layout and user interface.
- Developed user-friendly web forms with validation and error handling using react and redux-form.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Music Business And Event Management
University of The Highlands And Islands
Perth, Scotland 08.2013 - 05.2015
BTEC Extended Diploma And Higher National Diploma - Music With Performance
Academy of Music And Sound
Edinburgh, Scotland 08.2009 - 05.2013
Higher National Certificate - Electronic Engineering
University of The Highlands And Islands
Thurso, Caithness 08.2006 - 05.2007
Skills
JavaScript
Certification
Functional Programming in Scala Specialisation, corsera
Interests
Extreme programming
Automated testing and Quality assurance
Recent projects
Name: Refact
company: Small Magellanic Cloud Ai
url: https://github.com/smallcloudai/refact-chat-js and later https://github.com/smallcloudai/refact
Duration: November 2023 October 2025
Activities: Redesign and develop a shared javascript library from scratch to enable user to use AI coding assistants in VS code and JetBrains IDE's and collaborate with team members to deliver new features while reducing the need to mange new feature in two code bases simultaneously.
Technologies used: React, Redux, Typescript, Kotlin and Node.js.
Name: Slice-machine
company: Prismic
url: https://github.com/prismicio/slice-machine
Duration: October 2020 to October 2023
Activities: plan and scope and deliver user facing features , add continuous integration and automated testing, collaborate with quality assurance to increase automated tests scenarios, onboard team members, collaborate with external team members to remove/replace legacy code.
Technologies used: typescript, React, Redux, Typescript, Node.js, express, cypress, io-ts, github-actions, linear and Scala.
Recently read books
Effective Software Testing, by Maurício Aniche.
Atomic Habits, by James Clear.
Modern Software Engineering, by Daivd Farley
Timeline
Software Engineer
Small Magellanic Cloud Ai Ltd
11.2023 - Current
Functional Programming in Scala Specialisation, corsera
03-2020
Software Engineer
Prismic
05.2019 - 11.2023
Technical Support Manager
Traffective GmbH
02.2019 - 05.2019
Junior Software Engineer
HolidayCheck AG
09.2018 - 12.2018
Front-end Software Engineer
Brainnwave Technologies Limited
08.2016 - 11.2016
Front End Development Certification, freecodecamp.org
07-2016
Bachelor of Arts - Music Business And Event Management
University of The Highlands And Islands
08.2013 - 05.2015
BTEC Extended Diploma And Higher National Diploma - Music With Performance
Academy of Music And Sound
08.2009 - 05.2013
Higher National Certificate - Electronic Engineering
University of The Highlands And Islands
08.2006 - 05.2007
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