Ian Mckay
Cloud Principal at Kablamo
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolIan Mckay is a Cloud Principal with 13 years’ experience building and operating resilient, secure cloud platforms for Australian businesses, currently leading cloud practice at Kablamo. He combines hands-on DevOps and SecOps expertise with product-focused delivery, having kept a million-user streaming service running at Stan and supported 6,000+ SMB hosts at Crucial. A pragmatic infrastructure engineer and team leader, Ian has progressed from system administration to principal-level cloud architecture while mentoring teams in agile environments. He’s an active open-source contributor and AWS Community Hero with notable work on tools that translate cloud API activity into IAM policies and generate CloudFormation/Terraform from live resources. Ian’s strength is turning operational data into early diagnostics and policy-driven automation, often surfacing subtle security and configuration gaps before they affect users. Based in Sydney, he describes himself as an “IaC & security enthusiast” who habitually breaks things to learn how to make them stronger.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at University of Wollongong
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Github Skills (18)
terraform10
terraformer10
go10
aws10
ias10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
json9
rest-api9
yaml8
javascript8
mouse-events6
google-chrome-extension6
google-chrome6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
iann0036/iamlive
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Generate an IAM policy from AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud (GCP) calls using client-side monitoring (CSM) or embedded proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 13 reviews, 146 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Ian's contributions centered on developing core functionality for the `iamlive` project, which aims to generate IAM policies. Their initial work involved setting up the project and writing the initial codebase. Subsequent commits introduced features such as reading service definition files, handling different call types, adding resource mappings, and fixing various logic issues. The user has a strong focus on parsing and processing data to translate API calls into IAM policies.
policygcpproxycallsclient-side
iann0036/former2
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 829 commits, 57 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ian's commits focus on adding and improving the functionality of Web Application Firewall (WAFV2) resources within the `former2` project. The user added a series of components and configurations related to WAFV2, including various rulesets, and associations. They also fixed a number of bugs, incorporated improvements and edge cases, and addressed issues related to incorrect default settings and versioning.
aws-resourcescdktftropospherepulumiiac
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