Ian Maddox
Founding Engineer at Change Agents Technologies Inc.
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolIan Maddox is a hands-on founding engineer and entrepreneur with 18 years of experience building scalable cloud-native systems, ML-driven analytics, and blockchain-based trading platforms. He has led teams from prototype to millions of users, driven 10x revenue growth for a startup exit, and supported over $5B in deals while at Google where he co-authored web and password security whitepapers and contributed production-ready containerized security tools. Ian blends deep cloud architecture and security expertise with practical ML and data-pipeline engineering—refactoring complex codebases into automated, Databricks-backed pipelines and shipping predictive models to production. He also builds autonomous trading and liquidity-management systems for EVM chains, and maintains hands-on open-source contributions to GCP tutorials and container security examples. Based in Seattle, he thrives at the intersection of product, architecture, and team-building, frequently rescuing legacy systems into high-performing, compliant platforms.
18 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Sciences, Computer Sciences at North Seattle CollegeSoftware Development / Electronics Engineering, Software Development / Electronics Engineering at South Dakota MinesBachelor of Science - BS Cloud Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS Cloud Technology at Western Governors University
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Github Skills (13)
google-cloud-run10
gcp10
dockers9
docker9
api8
security8
apidoc8
python7
json6
php6
javascript6
terraformer3
terraform3
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/community
Mar 2019 - Aug 2021
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer
Cloud EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 15 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributed to tutorials and examples related to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Their work involved implementing and documenting solutions for containerized applications, including file integrity monitoring and antivirus scanning on Container Optimized OS (COS). They also refactored and updated an existing tokenization tutorial, migrating it to use Cloud DLP and Cloud Run, further demonstrating their proficiency in GCP services and cloud-native development.
directorycommunity-filesgoogle-cloudappearaws
ianmaddox/wink
Jan 2014 - Apr 2019
A PHP SDK for the Quirky Wink API
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 years 3 months
apiphpsdkwinkphp-sdk
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