Stuart Mackay
Senior Backend Engineer at Lincoln Loop
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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SeniorStuart Mackay is a Senior Backend Engineer with 20 years of experience building reliable, maintainable web applications and leading teams to deliver them. Based in Lisbon, he combines deep technical craft with strong management, mentoring, and communication skills to create data-driven teams that focus on the few things that make projects successful. He has broad full-stack experience through freelance work—most recently on a fintech startup creating a global payments and money transfer network—and now contributes at Lincoln Loop on backend systems. Stuart’s leadership emphasizes culture, clarity, and cross-cultural collaboration, having worked extensively with distributed, international teams. He prioritizes well-designed foundations that enable future growth, balancing pragmatic engineering with people-first management.
20 years of coding experience
Portuguese
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Github Skills (79)
postgresql10
python10
vagrantfile10
django-crispy-forms10
django10
gunicorn10
provisioning10
rabbitmq10
api10
ansible10
django-admin10
django-models10
filter10
virtualenv10
celery10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
StuartMacKay/checklists_scrapers
May 2013 - Jul 2014
Contributions:108 commits in 1 year 2 months
StuartMacKay/ansible-django-stack
Jan 2018 - Apr 2021
Ansible Playbook for setting up a Django app with Nginx, Gunicorn, PostgreSQL, Celery, RabbitMQ, Supervisor, Virtualenv, and Memcached. A Vagrantfile for provisioning a VirtualBox virtual machine is included as well.
Contributions:11 pushes, 36 branches in 3 years 2 months
nginxpythondjangosupervisordprovisioning
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