Ian Macinnes
Staff Software Engineer at Egress, a KnowBe4 company
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIan Macinnes is a Staff Software Engineer with 14+ years of experience combining deep AI research (DPhil in Artificial Intelligence) with hands-on production engineering across Python, Node.js and C++. He currently leads development of Egress Prevent, a patented A.I. threat protection service, and has driven architecture and novel algorithm design for self-calibrating ML systems that process millions of emails. His background spans distributed computing, genetic algorithms, graph databases and real-time ETL, with commercial implementations from financial risk grids to mobile and crypto escrow platforms. Ian pairs research interests—RDF knowledge bases and logic/reasoning over Virtuoso and ArangoDB—with practical product delivery and team leadership. He is equally comfortable prototyping mathematical algorithms and shipping robust APIs and services, and in his spare time experiments with Unreal Engine and AI tooling for structured data.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) Artificial Intelligence and Computer Studies, Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) Artificial Intelligence and Computer Studies at University of SussexB.Sc (Hons) Artificial Intelligence, B.Sc (Hons) Artificial Intelligence at University of Westminster
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Github Skills (39)
pattern9
matching9
arangodb9
query-language9
dispatch9
sql-like8
database8
data-models8
document-database8
graphdb8
graph-database8
embeddable8
datastore8
pattern-matching8
nosql7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
minimind/dispatch-on-value-for-python
Aug 2014 - Jan 2017
Python package that provides dispatch on values using pattern matching
Contributions:69 commits, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 2 years 4 months
dispatchpythonmatchingpattern-matchingpattern
minimind/range-map
May 2012 - Aug 2014
Contributions:6 commits in 2 years 3 months
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