Duncan Mcdowell
Head Of Engineering at Ground News
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDuncan Mcdowell is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling product and ML teams across North America's top tech hubs. As Head of Engineering at Ground News and former VP of Engineering at Korbit AI and Bungalow, he has repeatedly taken companies from zero to one, scaling teams from single-digit founders to 50+ engineers and expanding product reach from pilot to thousands of users. He combines hands-on technical delivery—building data pipelines, reporting engines and full-stack products—with operational rigor, including leading SOC 2 Type 2 compliance efforts. Comfortable at the intersection of data, ML, and product, Duncan has a track record of transforming how companies use data to make decisions and of hiring and structuring high-performing engineering organizations. Based in Kitchener-Waterloo, he brings entrepreneurial grit informed by formal training in entrepreneurship and advanced management.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
AngelPadAdvanced Management European Summer School for Advanced Management, Advanced Management European Summer School for Advanced Management at Aarhus UniversityHonors Bachelors of Arts Business Political Science and Global Studies, Honors Bachelors of Arts Business Political Science and Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier UniversityMasters Business Entrepreneurship and Technology, Masters Business Entrepreneurship and Technology at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (78)
inline-editor10
api9
inline9
django8
directives8
prerender8
rest8
react8
raspberry8
webpack-plugin8
google-api8
angularjs8
tailwindcss8
api-client7
client-library7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Blitzen/angular-inline-text-editor
Mar 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:59 commits, 5 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year 5 months
wysiwygjavascriptinline-editorinlinewysiwyg-editor
duncanmcdowell/media-server
Jan 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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