Story
I'm Bret McGee — a senior AI engineer and technical lead in London, Ontario, Canada · Remote. I've shipped production software since 2018 for Fortune-500 retail, federal digital programs, and my own 50+ agent engineering OS.
Most recently I've owned long-horizon platform work: Coca-Cola promo tools via Judo, a marketing-execution system across 10,000+ retail locations, and Deloitte-led Government of Canada portals — then built the multi-agent pipeline that now multiplies my independent delivery.
I hire for (and build toward) the same bar: strict TypeScript, real-services tests, accessibility as a launch gate, and agent work that is audited before it ships.
Values
Ship with guardrails
Lint, typecheck, and test gates are non-negotiable — especially when agents write the first draft.
Real services, real feedback
Integration tests hit real APIs and backends. Mocks hide the failures that show up in production.
Accessible by default
WCAG 2.2 AA is a launch gate: focus management, contrast, and reduced-motion paths are designed in.
Lead with clarity
Architecture and delivery ownership across enterprise retail scale and regulated federal programs — explained in business terms as well as engineering ones.
How metrics are measured
~2,951 contributions/yr
Method
- Self-measured from GitHub activity: commits and pull-request reviews combined.
- Trailing twelve-month window ending at the time of measurement (early 2026).
- Figure reflects personal throughput across independent engineering and client work — not a team aggregate.
Caveats
- GitHub "contributions" include commits and reviews; the count is platform-defined, not a custom productivity index.
- Volume is one signal — quality gates, disclosure review, and real-services testing matter more than raw count.
- The figure updates periodically; this page documents the methodology, not a live dashboard.
Timeline
2025-01 — present
Lead Engineer — AI-native engineering system · Independent engineering (product R&D)
Designed and built a multi-agent engineering operating system that orchestrates autonomous coding agents across plan → implement → audit → test → ship with reliability guardrails and host-resource governance.
2021-04 — present
Lead Engineer & Technical Lead · Engagement Agents
Lead engineer who designed, architected, and shipped a marketing-execution platform operating across 10,000+ retail locations in 5,000+ malls worldwide.
2019-04 — 2026-07
Technical Lead · Judo
Technical lead for the front-end and cloud environment of internal enterprise promo-management tools used by Coca-Cola and its subsidiaries.
2021-03 — 2022-07
Senior Software Engineer (Frontend) · Deloitte
Delivered complex features for federal digital-service programs at CBSA (CARM) and IRCC, digitizing manual caseworker and client processes into secure portals.
2020-03 — 2021-03
Lead Frontend Engineer · Profound Impact
Lead front-end engineer for an alumni social network spanning multiple universities; stood up AWS cloud infrastructure and supported the backend team.
2018-06 — 2019-12
Software Engineer · eLank
Built full-stack features for a digital platform; contributed across front-end and API layers in a fast-moving product team.