Douglas Mckechie
Senior Developer at Somar Digital
Upper Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolDouglas Mckechie is a hands‑on senior developer and team lead with 20+ years of experience delivering reliable web, API and database solutions across government, enterprise and SaaS environments. Now focused on back‑end architecture and PHP ecosystems, he combines deep SQL and performance‑tuning expertise with practical AWS experience to keep high‑availability systems running smoothly for business‑critical users. He’s spent recent years mentoring small distributed teams, improving delivery practices and still contributing significant code, having cut database load by ~30% on key systems through targeted optimisation. Comfortable across CMS/CRM stacks (SilverStripe, WordPress), microservices and front‑end work when needed, he also contributes open‑source front‑end projects such as enhancements to Winwheel.js. A low‑ego communicator strengthened by Toastmasters, Douglas excels at translating stakeholder needs into maintainable, well‑crafted software.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Business Computing, Information Technology, Diploma in Business Computing, Information Technology at Waiariki Institute of TechnologyDiploma in Software Engineering, Information Technology, Diploma in Software Engineering, Information Technology at Wellington Institute of Technology
English
Stackoverflow
571reputation
113kreached
42answers
2questions
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
html6
css6
php6
html5-canvas6
animation6
jquery6
canvas6
mysql6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zarocknz/javascript-winwheel
Mar 2016 - Jan 2019
Create spinning prize wheels on HTML canvas with Winwheel.js
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 65 commits, 33 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Douglas appears to be primarily responsible for the development and implementation of the Winwheel.js library. The commits show the addition of code files and example implementations, as well as converting tabs to spaces for code readability. The user also created examples of the library's application, including hollow wheel and wheel of fortune demonstrations. The contributions focused on expanding the library's capabilities and illustrating its uses through various visual wheel implementations.
javascript-libraryhtml-canvasprize-wheelsjavascriptjavascript-winwheel
zarocknz/javascript-skyrocket
Jul 2017 - Nov 2017
Design and Display fireworks on HTML canvas with Skyrocket.js
Contributions:7 releases, 45 commits, 33 PRs in 4 months
javascript-libraryfireworkshtml-canvasjavascript
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