John McGettrick

Experience

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  IFB

  Jun 2004 - Oct 2005

  Web Developer
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  Cheetah Web

  Oct 2005 - Aug 2006

  Web Developer
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  Everything different

  Aug 2006 - Feb 2008

  Web Developer
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  Mercantile Equity

  Mar 2008 - Feb 2009

  Web Developer
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  Insurance Medical Group

  Apr 2009 - Jul 2010

  Web Developer
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  Fusebox Design Ltd

  Jul 2010 - Dec 2011

  Web Developer

  Building, designing and maintaining a wide variety of websites including integrating with e-commerce payment systems such as Paypal, Sagepay and Barclays.

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  Turnitin

  Jan 2012 - Jan 2022

  Line manager for four Engineers and a team lead for five. Responsible for career development, coaching and mentoring whilst also contributing to the Engineering workload.Involved in planning, resourcing and architecting solutions to modernise our Integrations offering whilst also maintaining the existing platform used by most of our customers Tech Lead for an Agile team of Software Engineers responsible for the whole of the company’s integration platform Build and maintain software to integrate with our plagiarism checking and grading services

  • Software Engineering Manager

    Jan 2020 - Jan 2022

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Aug 2014 - Jan 2020

  • Software Engineer

    Jan 2012 - Aug 2014
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  Signifyd

  Jan 2022 - Nov 2024

  Engineering Manager

  - Manager for a team of 8 geographically dispersed engineers, ranging from Intern to Staff/Principal.- Scoping, prioritising, scheduling and allocating suitable resources to projects whilst occasionally contributing with code as required.- Triage interruptions, bugs and work closely with stakeholders from Product and Support- Responsible for alert reporting and investigating wider trends to reduce recurring issues - Leading an initiative to reduce engineer interruption time and on-call burden.- On call primary responder and incident commander for service issues- Mentor and coach engineers by helping define a career path with goals to let them fulfil their maximum potential- Collaborate cross-geography with various stakeholders to plan, form objectives and produce a roadmap for the team and wider engineering organisation- Built multiple high performing, delivery focused teams and kept them motivated remotely.- Leading projects with the aim of automating manual workloads to decrease operating costs, improving customer experience and retiring tech debt.- Implemented team processes and worked with the team to hone these into smooth working practices.- Migrated the team from Kanban to Scrum to better facilitate the delivery of value and ease the iterative development process.- Leader of our intern recruitment program and subsequently transitioning those to full time engineers. - Panelist and interviewer for recruiting both engineers and managers. Show less

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  Oak Engage

  Dec 2024 - now

  Engineering Manager