Senior Backend Engineer with 10 years of experience in systems and web programming.

Occam's razor is my mantra.

My experience engineering software spans 10 years and a wide range of domains: finance, data security, robotics, and holography. I focus on speed, maintainability, and quality. I lead and manage teams to success.

My software has enabled multi-million dollar financial transactions, and has operated unprecedented holographic displays.

I solve complex problems. Digital holography demands massive amounts of custom data. My software drove a cluster of computing nodes and produced real-time, fast, display of holographic goodness.

I create fast software. With one project, existing software received financial data via a custom protocol. It took two minutes for a single transfer of the data. My solution took less than a second. No joke. The entire team was surprised.

I fix borked software. Once I was given a slow, bug-riddled code base which controlled some serious robotic hardware. Within 2 weeks, and some sweat, it was clean, and functioned without issue. It was faster than it had ever been. It won unanimous client praise.

My values:

* Learning is a priority. "If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room."

* Team cohesion. Lives improve through positivity, mutual support, and challenge.

* Creativity. Give me a day of thought, I'll return with a different, better approach to the problem.

* Staying calm in the face of fire. Poop happens. I keep my wits and will save the day.

* Breadth of experience. Many "hats"; I've done project and team management, hiring, documentation, acted liaison, dev-ops, and system administration.

Check out my detailed bio at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garyamcelroy/

Work Terms

I'm available for part-time and full-time remote contracts depending on my availability.