Ian Macclancy
Principal Infrastructure Engineer at Black Forest Labs
Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Macclancy is a Principal Infrastructure Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building and hardening cloud-native systems across startups and large organizations. Based in Massachusetts, he has shipped infrastructure and backend features at AWS, solo.io, and multiple fintech and research teams, blending software engineering with platform and reliability focus. Ian contributes to open-source cloud projects—most notably work on the kgateway API/AI gateway—improving routing, weighted destinations, and upstream protocol support including HTTP/2. He combines a QA and SDET background with production software engineering, which helps him bridge testing rigor and scalable deployment practices. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he often surfaces subtle protocol and configuration issues before they reach production.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
AITComputer Science, Computer Science at Colby CollegeHigh School, High School at Saint John's High School
Github Skills (10)
go10
api10
api-gateway10
apidoc10
convoy9
envoyproxy9
env9
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
grpc7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kgateway-dev/kgateway
May 2022 - Jan 2023
The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 226 reviews, 60 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ian focused on implementing and refining features related to the routing and configuration of the API gateway. They addressed issues in multi-action route definitions, specifically handling weighted destinations and ensuring correct weight configurations. The user contributed to improvements in upstream protocol selection and settings, introducing support for HTTP/2 and HTTP/1 for upstreams. Further contributions included the addition of tests for the configurations.
api-gatewayfeature-richgrpcserverlesslegacy-apps
ianmacclancy/iansGlooFork
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
The Feature-rich, Kubernetes-native, Next-Generation API Gateway Built on Envoy
Contributions:20 pushes in 2 days
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