Alex Mcnamara
Director Of Engineering at AuditBoard
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarAlex Mcnamara is a Director of Engineering in San Francisco with 14 years of experience building and scaling backend services for enterprise SaaS and consumer platforms. He currently leads backend services focused on developer productivity and data-layer performance at AuditBoard, and previously served as CTO at Orion Labs where he re-architected APIs, identity, and RBAC to support enterprise-scale traffic and a successful acquisition. His background includes early, system-level work at Amazon (including Amazon Go prototypes and identity architectures) and architecting OAuth and federated identity solutions at Outreach. A hands-on leader who still contributes to open-source—having maintained back-end features and server fixes for the well-known 4clojure learning site—he blends deep platform engineering with organizational design to reduce costs and improve margins. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, able to translate high-level business goals into robust, auditable technical systems.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
clojure10
compojure10
web-development10
web-application10
webapp10
clojure-cli10
ring9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
4clojure/4clojure
Aug 2011 - Oct 2015
An interactive problem website for learning Clojure
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 13 PRs, 9 pushes in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the 4clojure website, focusing on improvements and additions to the core application logic. They fixed a blocking issue within the Jetty server integration, ensuring proper shutdown of agents. The user implemented features such as modifying usernames and display of flash messages, showing continued development of user management. They also separated tags into topics and difficulty, and refactored namespace declarations, indicating maintenance and enhancement efforts.
clojureclojurescriptproblem
amcnamara/git-blog
Aug 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:130 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 7 months
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