Ian Goodacre
Senior Consultant At SaaSam Group at Entrain Ltd
Waikato, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Goodacre is a seasoned infrastructure and operations specialist with 17 years of hands-on experience delivering systems integration, software development, and technical operations across public and private sectors. Based in Waikato, New Zealand, he advises and consults at SaaSam Group and through his own firm Entrain Ltd, blending project and change management with practical solution design and vendor liaison. His background spans everything from city-level network and data centre management to healthcare and enterprise IT, and he has a long record of moving between strategic planning and deep technical troubleshooting. Ian also contributes to open-source, notably improving reliability and replication in the widely used PouchDB project by authoring and refining tests and fixing subtle replication bugs. Colleagues know him for combining senior consultancy judgement with a developer’s attention to edge-case QA and operational resilience. He holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alberta and brings a pragmatic, systems-thinking approach to long-lived infrastructure challenges.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Electrical Engineering, BSc, Electrical Engineering at University of Alberta
Github Skills (8)
couchdb10
databases10
pouchdb10
javascript10
replication10
database10
test-automation10
testing10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
apache/pouchdb
Jan 2014 - Apr 2016
:kangaroo: - PouchDB is a pocket-sized database.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:29 commits, 1 PR, 12 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily focused on identifying and fixing bugs in the PouchDB codebase, specifically addressing issues related to redundant HTTP requests, replication errors, and the handling of empty databases. Their contributions included writing and modifying test cases, particularly within the `tests/` directory. These changes involved creating new test scenarios and modifying existing ones to improve the reliability and accuracy of the database's replication and change detection mechanisms.
databasepouchdbjavascriptcouchdb
ig3/logsurfer
Mar 2021 - Jul 2026
Logsurfer development tree (unofficial)
Contributions:7 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 5 months
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