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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<title>Ross Mackay</title>
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content="Ross Mackay is a London based full-stack developer"
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<h1>Ross Mackay</h1>
<h2>About</h2>
<p>
I'm a full-stack developer based in London with a proven track
record of breaking down problems, identifying efficient solutions,
and delivering results. Over the past 10+ years, I've worked across
industries - from early-stage startups to established agencies. My
focus is on writing clean, functional code that solves real business
needs.
</p>
<p>
My core tech is Node.js, React, Typescript and their respective
ecosystems, but I'm comfortable working in, and contributing to
services built in a range of programming languages.<span
class="no-print"
>
I'm particularly interested in opportunities involving functional
languages like Elixir or Clojure.</span
>
</p>
<em>email:</em> <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a
><br />
<em>github:</em>
<a href="https://github.com/mcky" target="blank">mcky</a><br />
<h2>Recent clients (contract)</h2>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client">
<a href="https://www.thenational.academy/" target="_blank"
>Oak National Academy</a
>
<span class="job__date">(2021-2024)</span>
</p>
<p>
<b>AI Labs</b>: In 2023 I was approached by Oak to help them take
their LLM experiments from prototype scripts to production
services. We launched 2 new AI tools to assist teachers, utilizing
a novel approach of streaming structured LLM responses to the
browser to improve the UX of long-running prompts. Productionising
these entailed instrumenting and adding authorization/access
control, observability, reporting, custom back-office dashboards
and service hardening. Ultimately the experiments proved
successful and Oak are now integrating the AI features into their
main apps.
</p>
<p class="job__skills">
Stack: Next.js, Typescript, Postgres (w/ Prisma), Clerk, Inngest,
Langhchain, LLMOps, Retool, Redis, tRPC
</p>
<p>
Prior to AI Labs I worked with Oak on a number of different
projects, spanning the entirety of their tech stack. One highlight
was redeveloping and re-launching their asset downloads
experience. By enabling bulk downloads of entire lessons or
collections of lessons, and streamlining the (fully accessible)
UI, we were able to save teachers a lot of time. On the back-end,
the service was extended to zip bundles of assets together,
intelligently caching them to reduce download times.
</p>
<p class="job__skills">
Stack: Next.js, Typescript, Serverless architecture (GCP,
Cloudflare workers), Postgres (w/ Hasura), GraphQL, Sanity.io
</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client">
<a href="https://www.zero-1.co/" target="_blank">Zero-1</a> /
<a href="https://www.liftedcare.com/" target="_blank"
>Lifted care</a
>
<span class="job__date">(2019-2020)</span>
</p>
<p>
Zero-1 are Corporate Venture Builder & Startup Studio, giving me
the opportunity to work on both their established businesses
(Lifted) and new startups.
</p>
<p>
<b>Lifted care</b>: Lifted care provide in-home care, facilitated
by both client and carer-facing apps and complex backoffice
software. I worked with Lifted to add and improve features in
their react native apps, react based admin web-apps, carer payroll
calculation and reporting workflows
</p>
<p>
Aside from Lifted I worked on Zero-1's other experiments,
iterating quickly to try and validate product viability. Another
large part of my responsibilities was supporting their junior
developers through mentoring, pair programming and code review.
</p>
<p class="job__skills">
Stack: Typescript (+ tsoa, TypeORM, TypeGraphQL), Nest.js,
Next.js, React Native, Postgres, AWS
</p>
</div>
<section class="jobs--abridged print-only">
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client"><a href="#">Zappar</a> (2022)</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client"><a href="#">y’all</a> (2021)</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client"><a href="#">JAAM</a> (2021)</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client">
<a href="#">Moving Brands</a> (2019, 2020)
</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client"><a href="#">YunoJuno (HQ)</a> (2019)</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client">
<a href="#">Wizarding World (via Huge)</a> (2018)
</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client"><a href="#">Ekino</a> (2017)</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client"><a href="#">Beamly</a> (2017)</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client"><a href="#">StinkDigital</a> (2016)</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client"><a href="#">2PAx</a> (2016)</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client">
<a href="#">Instinctif Partners</a> (2016)
</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client"><a href="#">Unmade</a> (2016)</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client"><a href="#">The Rumpus Room</a> (2015)</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client"><a href="#">The Telegraph</a> (2015)</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client"><a href="#">WhatLeadsTo</a> (2015)</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client"><a href="#">Kota Creative</a> (2014)</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client">
<a href="#">FuelStory / Converge Collective</a> (2013)
</p>
</div>
</section>
<section class="jobs--additional" style="display: none">
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client">
<a href="https://www.zappar.com/" target="_blank">Zappar</a>
<span class="job__date">(2022)</span>
</p>
<p>
Zappar worked with Britvic to create a gamified WebAR
experience. While Zappar's internal developers handled the AR
via Three.js, I was tasked with implementing the game
progression logic and third-party backend integration, while
maintaining state synchronization between React and ThreeJS
contexts for a seamless experience.
</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client">
<a href="https://www.itsyall.com/" target="_blank">y’all</a>
<span class="job__date">(2021)</span>
</p>
<p>
Implemented a custom authentication/access control system across
the serverless stack, CMS and Next.js app. Deep sanity
integration for user group and permission management.
</p>
<p class="job__skills">Stack: sanity.io, auth0, Next.js</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client">
<a href="https://letsjaam.com/" target="_blank">JAAM</a>
<span class="job__date">(2021)</span>
</p>
<p>
Created an interactive learning experience for medical
professionals to learn about new immunotherapy treatments.
Implemented in React as a game-like experience with branching
learning paths, with each state and path declaratively
represented in a dependency graph.
</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client">
<a href="https://www.movingbrands.com/" target="_blank"
>Moving Brands</a
>
<span class="job__date">(2019, 2020)</span>
</p>
<p>
I've worked with Moving Brands on a number of projects,
including:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Adding realtime session functionality to deliver virtual tours
of a large manufacturer's facilities during COVID-19.
</li>
<li>
Building a marketing site for a california based electric
vehicle company, including user generated content submissions.
</li>
</ul>
<p class="job__skills">
Skills: Next.js, Hapi, sanity.io, Serverless framework (AWS),
Gatsby.js
</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client">
<a href="https://yunojuno.com" target="_blank">YunoJuno (HQ)</a>
<span class="job__date">(2019)</span>
</p>
<p>
Re-platformed YunoJuno’s hard-coded gatsby marketing site to be
CMS driven.
</p>
<p class="job__skills">Skills: React, Gatsby.js, Contentful</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client">
<a href="https://www.wizardingworld.com/" target="_blank"
>Wizarding World (via Huge)</a
>
<span class="job__date">(2018)</span>
</p>
<p>
Led a team to build the first stages of a the Wizarding World
web platform.
</p>
<p class="job__skills">
Skills: React (SSR), GraphQL, Node, Contentful, Jest, CSS
Modules
</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client">
<a href="https://www.ekino.com/en/" target="_blank">Ekino</a>
<span class="job__date">(2017)</span>
</p>
<p>
Built a financial dashboard powered by a modular CMS,
integrating with both new and legacy APIs.
</p>
<p class="job__skills">
Skills: React, Component-driven development
</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client">
<a href="https://www.beamly.com" target="_blank">Beamly</a>
<span class="job__date">(2017)</span>
</p>
<p>
Built the platform to power the next generation of marketing
sites for a range of household beauty & fragrance companies.
</p>
<p class="job__skills">Skills: Node, Chai, Cucumber</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client">
<a href="http://stinkdigital.com" target="_blank"
>StinkDigital</a
>
<span class="job__date">(2016)</span>
</p>
<p>
Created cutting-edge digital experiences including a digital
treasure-trail housed in a web-based OS and a webGL + AI-powered
fashion designer.
</p>
<p class="job__skills">
Skills: React, Redux, websockets, adapting projects for
installations, OS.js
</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client">
<a href="http://2pax.com" target="_blank">2PAx</a>
</p>
<p>
Built both the prototype and v1 of a real-time restaurant
management platform.
</p>
<p class="job__skills">
Skills: React, Redux (& Sagas), websockets, Stripe integration
</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client">
<a href="http://instinctif.com" target="_blank"
>Instinctif Partners</a
>
</p>
<p>
Redeveloped a legacy site whilst creating a component-library
for use in microsites.
</p>
<p class="job__skills">Skills: ES6, Jekyll, Wordpress</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client">
<a href="https://unmade.com" target="_blank">Unmade</a>
</p>
<p>
Refreshed marketing site to reflect new brand direction,
extracted shared components from marketing & e-commerce
projects into a component library.
</p>
<p class="job__skills">
Skills: ES6, CSS, Static-site generators, accessible &
responsive design
</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client">
<a href="http://trr.tv" target="_blank">The Rumpus Room</a>
</p>
<p>
Built large scale innovative campaigns for clients such as the
UN, sporting celebrities and musicians. Rapid prototyping of
campaigns in conjunction with creatives.
</p>
<p class="job__skills">Skills: React, Redux, prototyping</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client">
<a href="http://telegraph.co.uk" target="_blank"
>The Telegraph</a
>
</p>
<p>
Developed a tool for journalists to enrich articles with
contextual information, with similar tools now used by many big
name digital news sites.
</p>
<p class="job__skills">
Skills: React, Bootstrap, UX, prototyping
</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client">
<a href="http://alanyau.com" target="_blank">Alan Yau</a>
</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<p class="job__client">
<a href="http://teamwiggins.co" target="_blank"
>Bradley Wiggins</a
>
</p>
</div>
<h2>Jobs</h2>
<div class="job">
<h3>WhatLeadsTo (2015)</h3>
<p>
Built the early stages of a platform to help charities and
business better measure and report their social impact. Worked
closely with designers and stakeholders to rapidly prototype and
test features.
</p>
<p class="job__skills">
Skills: React, Node, MongoDB, Product design
</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<h3>Kota Creative (2014)</h3>
<p>
Led development on a host of websites for clients in the
hospitality sector.
</p>
<p class="job__skills">Skills: Front-end, Wordpress</p>
</div>
<div class="job">
<h3>FuelStory / Converge Collective (2013)</h3>
<p>
Worked on the rebranding and strategy for a rapidly growing
London coworking space and prototyped a number of small apps and
websites, handling everything from design to competitor research
and market analysis.
</p>
<p class="job__skills">
Skills: Prototyping, Front-end, Design, Research
</p>
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<h2 id="education">Education</h2>
<div class="job">
<h3 class="job__client">BA Digital Media Design (2012 - 2015)</h3>
<p>London College of Communication</p>
<p>
A multi-disciplinary degree focusing on creative applications of
technology, in my final year I focused on applications of wearable
technology. For my thesis I developed a prototype 3D-printed
wearable, using BLE to communicate with a companion iOS app
(Obj-C) and the accompanying web services backing it.
</p>
<p class="job__skills">
Skills: Creative coding, hardware, motion graphics, 3D modelling,
video production
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<p>
In my free time I enjoy cycling, hiking and mountaineering. I'm the
webmaster of a local mountaineering club
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<p>
I'm a keen cyclist, and spent spring/summer of 2024 cycle touring
around europe, from London to Prague over ~3000km. I hope one day to
resume the trip and continue through Asia.
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Web development & design, animation, video production
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