Ian Macdonald
Director Application Development
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Macdonald is a Director of Application Development with 11 years of engineering experience building scalable, highly available data platforms and search systems for the music and media industry. Based in Portland, he progressed from hands-on software engineer to director at Rumblefish/HFA, owning music royalty distribution, Solr/Elasticsearch search stacks, and AWS infrastructure at production scale. He combines a chemistry background and early lab/QA roles with formal training in computer programming, bringing a methodical, compliance-minded approach to reliability and data integrity. Ian is comfortable both leading teams and diving into code, having shipped real-time services and mobile integrations earlier in his career. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic technologist who prioritizes operational robustness and continuous learning.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Chemistry, Bachelor’s Degree, Chemistry at Reed CollegeComputer Programming, Computer Programming at Epicodus
Github Skills (61)
aws-sdk10
faraday9
ruby-client9
aws9
elasticsearch-client9
datadog8
go-micro8
aws-codecommit8
sdk8
user-guide8
ruby8
dry-rb8
apm7
distributed-tracing7
linux7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sesac/rhykane
Dec 2022 - Nov 2024
Tool for mapping/normalizing data, specifically row-based delimited datasets
Contributions:10 reviews, 23 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 10 months
data-managementdataframesdelimiteddatasetnormalizing
sesac/docker-cfg
Feb 2019 - Jun 2020
Shared docker configuration
Contributions:4 PRs, 1 push, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
docker
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