Tony Mcguckin
Principal Software Engineer at Upwind Security
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTony Mcguckin is a Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead with 11+ years at IBM driving R&D for next-generation tooling, middleware, and microservices across IBM Cloud, Hybrid-Cloud, and Satellite platforms. A recognised subject matter expert and author of three bestselling IBM books, he blends hands-on full-stack development (C/C++, JavaEE, NodeJS, Go) with systems architecture, UX, performance tuning and DevSecOps practice. He leads distributed teams through Agile and traditional lifecycles, delivering scalable, secure cloud-native solutions using Kubernetes, Docker and multi-OS environments. Tony’s background in consultancy and client enablement complements his technical leadership, enabling complex product and IP/R&D processes to move from concept to production. Notable for bridging deep implementation skills with published thought leadership, he often operates at the intersection of applied cyber-security and developer tooling. Based in Ireland with a BEng in Software Engineering, he brings pragmatic problem-solving and a track record of shipping resilient cloud services.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BEng(Hons) Software Engineering, BEng(Hons) Software Engineering at University of Ulster
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Github Skills (13)
terraform9
ibm-cloud9
terraform-provider9
kubernetes-service9
graph7
xpages6
app-dev6
jsf6
infrastructure-as-code5
customizer5
hcl-connections4
devsecops2
cloudshell1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tonymcguckin/dynamicyml
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 552 pushes, 22 branches in 6 months
tonymcguckin/simple-toolchain-hosted
Mar 2019 - Sep 2021
Contributions:10 PRs, 484 pushes, 32 branches in 2 years 5 months
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