Ian Mccracken
Director Of Engineering at Fanatics
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Mccracken is a Director of Engineering with 17 years building and operating large-scale, cost-conscious cloud platforms and distributed systems. He led Pushnami’s platform to handle billions of messages daily—achieving a 1200% scalability increase—and drove a 35% AWS cost reduction through Kubernetes migration and targeted rearchitecture. Ian combines hands-on engineering (authoring Python back-end components such as the ouimeaux WeMo API) with leadership across SRE, security, and infrastructure-as-code practices, having moved organizations to Terraform and formal incident response. His background includes designing real-time service analysis engines and root-cause algorithms that helped win upmarket deals and acquisition interest. Based in Austin, he’s known for translating complex operational challenges into pragmatic, observable, and auditable systems while keeping an eye on cost and operability.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Liberal Arts, B.A., Liberal Arts at St. John's CollegeLaw, Law at University of Michigan Law School
Github Skills (10)
api-rest10
rest-api10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
flask-ask9
flask9
gevent9
web-development8
bash4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
iancmcc/ouimeaux
Feb 2013 - Jan 2021
Python API to Belkin WeMo devices
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:198 commits, 44 PRs, 64 pushes in 8 years
Contributions summary:Ian primarily worked on the core Python API for interacting with Belkin WeMo devices. Their contributions focused on the structure and functionality of the API, including the creation of classes and methods for device discovery, service interaction, and state management. They also added the foundation for the WeMo device events and web server, extending its features by implementing features such as the light switch toggle, dimming features, basic authentication, and the addition of the command-line interface.
apipythonwemo-deviceswemobelkin
iancmcc/iancmcc.github.io
Apr 2015 - Aug 2021
Contributions:18 pushes in 6 years 5 months
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