Colin Mcnamara
Managing Partner, Engineering And Finance at Always Cool Brands
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Mcnamara is a seasoned engineering and operations leader with 13 years of senior experience building highly reliable cloud, network, and AI-enabled supply chain systems where failure is not an option. Currently Managing Partner for Engineering & Finance at Always Cool Brands in Austin, he blends generative AI, provenance tracking, and rigorous quality frameworks (ISO, SQF, IWA42) to make FDA-regulated food and beverage supply chains safer and more sustainable. Previously he led Oracle’s optical and network reliability efforts, driving a 58% reduction in customer outage minutes and accelerating data-center delivery that added $27M in revenue. Colin’s career spans founding consulting practices, pioneering DevOps and SDN/cloud solutions, and hands-on reliability work that connects global infrastructure to human outcomes—he often frames technical wins by who they protect on the factory floor. A Marine Corps veteran and certified firefighter, he brings operational discipline and incident-command experience to complex engineering programs. He pairs fiscal stewardship of large capital budgets with a curiosity for practical AI tooling—LangChain and local models are already in his production stack.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Certification Fire Science Airport Rescue Firefighting, Certification Fire Science Airport Rescue Firefighting at Oklahoma State ExtensionDimension Data Leadership Development NeuroLeadership / Emotional Intelligence, Dimension Data Leadership Development NeuroLeadership / Emotional Intelligence at Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins CollegeProfessional Development Warfighting Finance Leadership, Professional Development Warfighting Finance Leadership at Marine Corps Institute
Github Skills (24)
openstack10
opendev9
sensu7
explore7
espn7
system-administration6
openflow6
juniper5
continuous-integration5
python5
snmp5
opendaylight4
gerrit4
automation3
controller3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aimug-org/austin_langchain
Aug 2023 - Apr 2025
Austin LangChain
Contributions:10 reviews, 100 PRs, 272 pushes in 1 year 7 months
aimug-org/alc-docs
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:9 reviews, 11 PRs, 154 pushes in 6 months
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