Iain Mccown
Senior Software Engineer at Circle
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIain Mccown is a Senior Software Engineer based in Austin, Texas with a decade of experience building full-stack products and leading engineering teams. A UC Santa Barbara mathematics graduate, he blends strong analytical foundations with practical product-minded engineering, progressing from founding engineer roles to management and now senior individual contributor work at Circle. His background spans startups (founding engineer at an acquired startup), mid-sized crypto infrastructure (Edge & Node), and large-scale systems at Amazon and IBM, giving him a knack for shipping reliable services across varied domains. Known for a passion for great products, he bridges product and engineering priorities to move fast without sacrificing quality. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who pairs mathematical rigor with pragmatic implementation—comfortable mentoring teams and diving into code when it matters.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (51)
classify9
watson9
graph9
watson-assistant9
visual-recognition9
computer-vision8
ibm-watson8
staking8
language-translation8
ethereum8
websocket8
solidity8
nodejs8
socket-io8
javascript7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
edgeandnode/product-interview-challenge
Oct 2023 - May 2024
Contributions:3 pushes in 7 months
IainM22/eth-hack-ui
Oct 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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