Macgregor Thomson Email & Phone Number

Macgregor Thomson is a Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure at BuzzFeed. He possess expertise in scala, java, javascript, software development, mongodb and 18 more skills. He is proficient in French. Colleagues describe him as "I worked closely with Mac for a year, and managed him directly for another year. Mac is a stellar colleague in at least three important ways: 1) He's organized. For example, Mac managed a complicated project for HuffPost -- the construction and launch of an in-house CMS -- and was very effective. He worked with design, engineering (including cross-functional engineering teams that relied on his team's work), and numerous stakeholders. He knew all the details and successfully guided the CMS to launch. The process was incredibly smooth, and it wouldn't have happened without him. Oh, and did I mention that he did this remotely? His organization and attention to detail is why this project succeeded. 2) He's an effective communicator. Mac is able to talk to everyone in their own language. He can speak with engineers about complicated developments, and then turn to editorial stakeholders and explain the same thing in layman's terms. As a bonus, he's as strong at communicating in writing as he is in person. 3) He's a nice guy. Put simply, Mac is a pleasure to work with, because he's humble, polite, cheerful, and funny. He's the kind of guy you don't mind sitting next to five days a week. I'd gladly team up with Mac again in the future.", "I worked with Mac for almost a year at Huffingtonpost. It was a real pleasure. Unlike many other product managers I've worked with who focused more on just giving what the end users want, Mac was very dedicated to the vision of the product. He strove to do the right thing for the product in the long run v.s. just making the customers happy in the near term. This was extremely important to the project, and as developers who want the right thing as well, we couldn't strengthen enough how much we appreciate Mac for that. Mac was also a very hard working professional. In most agile practices I worked in, a typical product manager can manage requirements for about 3-4 devs. Mac, though, was responsible for 3-4 products managing efforts consist of as many as a dozen developers. It's has been a wonder to me how he pulled it out. I also enjoyed working with Mac as a person. He was always seeking feedback to work on improving his work.Although not very often we needed him to change the way he worked, but when we do, we just tell him in the most direct way and he always took them very well. I would love to work with Mac again and again. Together, we built awesome stuff, together we grew tremendously.", and "Mac was a great help to us as we designed and launched HuffPost Live. He helped seed the existing HuffPost community and encourage the first generation of video contributors; contributed to our UI and UX design and workflow discussions; consulted on our producer dashboard/CMS product specs and workflow streamlining decisions; and helped foster communication among community screeners, moderation staff, producers, hosts, and senior staff - all while bringing humor, insight, and HuffPost continuity."

Listed skills include Scala, Java, Javascript, Software Development, and 19 others.