Adrian Macneil
Co-Founder & CEO at Foxglove
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAdrian Macneil is a veteran software leader and founder with 15 years of experience building infrastructure and developer-facing tools, currently scaling robotics software as Co-Founder & CEO of Foxglove in San Francisco. He previously founded and led large engineering organizations at Cruise and Coinbase, hiring and running the infrastructure teams that supported autonomous vehicle and crypto platforms. A hands-on engineer early in his career, Adrian has shipped back-end systems, payment gateway integrations, and developer tools—contributing to widely used open-source projects like Omnipay and creating the lightweight dbmate migration tool. His work on MCAP and Foxglove signals a deep interest in performant, serialization-agnostic formats for robotics and pub/sub systems. Known for blending product instincts with low-level technical craft, he pairs startup founding experience with enterprise-scale operational leadership.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Massey University
English
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Github Skills (70)
website-development10
testing10
payment-gateway10
httpc10
guzzle10
phpunit10
ruby10
omnipay10
http-client10
paypal10
payment-integration10
data-serialization10
data-model10
api10
httplib10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
thephpleague/omnipay-stripe
Jan 2013 - Sep 2014
Stripe driver for the Omnipay PHP payment processing library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:58 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Adrian primarily contributed to implementing a Stripe payment gateway for the Omnipay PHP payment processing library. Their work involved creating classes and methods for handling purchase and refund operations, interacting with the Stripe API. This included writing tests to ensure the functionality of the payment gateway. The user also made refactoring changes to improve code formatting.
driveromnipayphpstripe
amacneil/dbmate
Nov 2015 - Jan 2023
🚀 A lightweight, framework-agnostic database migration tool.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:57 releases, 63 reviews, 181 commits in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Adrian focused on improving the database migration tool. They refactored and added commands, including the "rollback" and "up" commands, to manage database migrations. Furthermore, the user introduced features allowing database URLs to be specified via the command line, which adds flexibility. The user also added support for automatically dumping the schema.
database-migrationdatabase-migrationsgolangnodejspython
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