Ian Mc Shane
Software Engineer at Rain
Plymouth, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Mc Shane is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, money-moving systems across fintech, insurance, eCommerce and government platforms. He combines hands-on development in Scala, Kotlin, C#/.NET and cloud-native tooling with pragmatic leadership—reorganising teams into product-focused pods, improving observability, and driving CI/CD and platform reliability. Ian has delivered end-to-end solutions from high-performance data ingestion and scoring engines to EHR and content delivery platforms, often taking ownership of cross-team integration and production observability. Comfortable as a contractor or interim head of engineering, he repeatedly translates complex business needs into testable, deployable services and measurable outcomes. Based in Plymouth, UK, he brings a pattern-driven, data-informed approach to decisions and a track record of reorganising teams to accelerate delivery and revenue.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BCOM Information Systems, BCOM Information Systems at University of Cape Town
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
350reputation
16kreached
8answers
10questions
Github Skills (38)
partials8
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reactivemongo7
wpf6
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memory-leaks6
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simplify5
javascript4
cryptocurrency4
reactive4
tinyurl4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
matchboxsolutions/matchboxsolutions.github.io
Jul 2019 - Apr 2022
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
IanMcShane/sandbox-scala
Feb 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
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