Ray McBride

Hi, I'm Ray McBride and I'm a web development/devops manager from London, England.

I have been working with the web since 2000 using a number of technologies and languages, as a free-lancer, in full time employment and in both the public and private sectors.

In 2004 I gained a MSc with merit in Computing Science from the University of London. My final year project investigated and compared the abilities of the Multilayer Perceptron, the Time Delay Neural Network and the Recurrent Neural Network at forecasting end of day closing price of the FTSE 100 Index. My project report is available from the Academic section of this website and my Java source code is available on Github.

I currently manage a team of developers, UX/UI designers and devops engineers developing and maintaining ecommerce websites using Python and the Django framework.

Management specialities

• Agile development, project management, Scrum, UML
• Problem solving, requirements gathering, brief creation, verbal and written communication, analytics, reporting
• Testing and quality assurance
• PCI DSS compliance, SCA, GDPR
• Leadership and mentoring, workload management and delegation, recruitment

Technical skills

• Python, Django, Java, C++, Ruby
• HTML, CSS3 Javascript, React
• Android & iOS development
• PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Memcached
• Linux, Bash, SaltStack, Ansible, Git
• Nginx, REST, RabbitMQ
• Cloudflare, AWS, Wireguard
• Gitlab and the Atlassian suite
• Troubleshooting, monitoring and security

Professional qualifications

• 2013 - Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1)

Other interests

I also love martial arts and hold black belts in Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.