Over the past ≈3 years, I've worked on numerous open-source projects with teams of many sizes. For the last year, I've been developing and maintaining software that serves 70,000+ students at UCF Techrangers. Much of my experience is in backend systems and CLI tools, but I also like to try new things frequently. In several hackathons, I've worked on ML projects and games (my team won "Best Game" at Knight Hacks VIII).

For personal projects, Rust and Go are two of my favorite languages, but I also frequently use Python. The challenges I most enjoy working on involve software architecture, API design, and balancing practical design with efficiency.

Right now, I'm working on kvd, a key-value diffing and merging tool that's generic across file types. I also love researching – recently I've been reading about CRDTs (Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types) and some of my work can be seen in xcrdtbl.

You can see all of my in progress projects as well as those on deck and those in the backlog.

Languages: Rust ∙ Go ∙ Python ∙ JavaScript ∙ C ∙ Java

Web: Svelte ∙ Tailwind ∙ Templ

Databases: PostgreSQL ∙ MongoDB ∙ SQLite

Infra: Docker ∙ AWS (Lambda, EC2, API Gateway)

Development: Linux (Void) ∙ Tmux ∙ Nvim ∙ dotfiles

• Portfolio: mcclean.dev
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lucasmcclean

Look for opportunities to take a little bit of extra suffering upon yourself in order to reduce the suffering of your users.

— John Ousterhout (A Philosophy of Software Design)