Ed Mclain
Founder at DevOpsDays Birmingham AL
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolEd Mclain is a seasoned founder and technology leader with 11+ years of hands-on experience designing scalable SaaS and cloud architectures, automating operations, and driving compliance across PCI, HIPAA, SSAE16/SOC, and ISO frameworks. He founded Nibuild to help organizations architect, automate, and scale SaaS stacks, and runs Digital Motion Event Services, bringing practical systems thinking to live events and AV production. His background spans infrastructure and cloud architecture, CTO roles in IoT and biotech startups, and operational leadership at Daxko, where he led security, compliance, and platform reliability efforts. Ed is driven by solving hard problems and a passion for eliminating repetitive work through automation, which has guided his teams and product designs for two decades. Comfortable digging into low-level technical detail or shaping high-level business and compliance strategy, he blends engineering rigor with an operator’s focus on measurable outcomes. Based in Birmingham, AL, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a long track record of building auditable, production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Alabama in Huntsville
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Github Skills (167)
sdl10
testing10
rancher10
lambda10
developer-tools10
continuous-integration10
aws-lambda10
cattle10
development-environment10
docker10
ide10
x1110
aws10
crud9
container-management9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
zonywhoop/moodle-mod_customcert
Apr 2019 - Aug 2023
Enables the creation of dynamically generated certificates with complete customisation via the web browser.
Contributions:16 PRs, 21 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years 5 months
browsercustomisationtlscertificatesweb-browser
DigitalMotionTech/docker-bookstack
Apr 2021 - Oct 2024
BookStack in a container
Contributions:8 PRs, 40 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 6 months
dockerbookstack
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