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Platform Engineer · Belfast

Elliott McPherson

Software Engineer building secure, scalable cloud infrastructure

I build and operate the infrastructure other engineers build on top of: Kubernetes clusters, Terraform-managed cloud, and the observability that catches problems before anyone else notices.

Find me
elliott@developer ~
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My Work

Featured Projects

The StudentWallet sign-up screen, with fields for name, date of birth and email address.

StudentWallet

StudentWallet is a comprehensive financial management system designed specifically for university students. It allows students to track their spending, manage budgets, monitor their maintenance loan, and integrate their bank accounts via Plaid.

  • React.js
  • Express.js
  • CSS/HTML
  • Node.js
  • docker-compose
  • GCP CloudRun
  • Firestore
  • Plaid API
The landing page of this portfolio site, showing the hero section and interactive terminal.

Portfolio Website

A portfolio website built to improve my TypeScript and frontend development skills, designed to highlight my projects and demonstrate my employability.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • shadcn/ui
  • TailwindCSS
  • Firebase Hosting
  • GitHub Actions

Expertise

Skills & Technologies

Cloud

  • AWS
  • EKS
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • Argo CD
  • GitOps
  • Istio
  • GCP

Observability & Incident Response

  • OpenTelemetry
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Coralogix
  • Honeycomb
  • Refinery
  • DataDog
  • CloudWatch
  • incident.io
  • PagerDuty

CI/CD

  • Git
  • Jenkins
  • GitLab CI
  • CircleCI
  • Argo Workflows
  • Snyk

Backend Development

  • Go
  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • Node.js
  • Python

Frontend Development

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Next.js
  • TailwindCSS
  • HTML/CSS
  • Figma

Databases

  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • SQL

Contact

Get in touch

Feel free to reach out if you're looking for an engineer, have a question, or just want to connect.