Alistair Mclean
Staff Backend Software Engineer at NetRise Inc.
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolAlistair Mclean is a Staff Backend Software Engineer with nine years of experience designing and operating cloud-native, data-focused systems using Python and Golang. He specializes in building resilient backend services, data lakes, and streaming pipelines (Kafka, KSQL, Debezium) that turn operational telemetry into actionable insights and materially reduce investigation times. Comfortable across AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD tooling, he’s delivered production systems that bridge data engineering and ML/data-science initiatives. His background in physics research and early work automating lab systems informs a methodical, measurement-driven approach to debugging and performance tuning. Known for pragmatic tooling and process improvements—such as leading engineering standards and improving git workflows—he combines deep technical craft with a focus on developer productivity. Based in Grand Rapids, MI, he thrives on projects that unlock more value from the data organizations already collect.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Physics, Bachelor’s Degree, Physics at New Mexico State UniversityIntroduction to Data Science, Introduction to Data Science at Galvanize Inc
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Github Skills (22)
continuous-integration8
aws8
testing8
lambda7
aws-lambda7
python7
serverless6
developer-tools6
amazon-ec26
serverless-framework6
psycopg6
opencv6
amazon-web-services6
aws-cloud4
cgo4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alistair-mclean/ucount
Oct 2019 - Oct 2021
The ucount CLI tool for counting organisms in CFM images.
Contributions:20 PRs, 21 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years
cfmcli-toolcountingcli
alistair-mclean/microCounter
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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