Ian Macdonald
Director Application Development
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Macdonald is a Director of Application Development with 11 years of engineering experience building scalable, highly available data platforms and search systems for the music and media industry. Based in Portland, he progressed from hands-on software engineer to director at Rumblefish/HFA, owning music royalty distribution, Solr/Elasticsearch search stacks, and AWS infrastructure at production scale. He combines a chemistry background and early lab/QA roles with formal training in computer programming, bringing a methodical, compliance-minded approach to reliability and data integrity. Ian is comfortable both leading teams and diving into code, having shipped real-time services and mobile integrations earlier in his career. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic technologist who prioritizes operational robustness and continuous learning.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Chemistry, Bachelor’s Degree, Chemistry at Reed CollegeComputer Programming, Computer Programming at Epicodus
Github Skills (51)
elasticsearch-client10
aws-sdk9
ruby-client9
go-micro8
aws-codecommit8
profiling8
aws8
ruby8
debugging8
apm7
distributed-tracing7
datadog7
enqueue7
elasticsearch6
cloud-platform6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sesac/docker-cfg
Feb 2019 - Jun 2020
Shared docker configuration
Contributions:4 PRs, 1 push, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
docker
matchbookmac/bands
May 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:34 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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