Ivan Macek
Staff Software Engineer, Unannounced AAA Game - Growth Systems at Riot Games
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolIvan Macek is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable systems and technical teams, currently architecting growth systems for an unannounced AAA title at Riot Games. He blends hands-on engine-level optimization—enabling 100,000 replicated Unreal Actors on a single 60-tick server—with product-focused platform work like inventory, progression, and persistence services. Previously he led reliability and automation efforts for League of Legends, driving shard automation and migration work that enabled cloud expansion and reduced datacenter footprint. Ivan has a strong background in cross-functional leadership, having grown teams, modernized legacy systems (saving tens of millions by replacing proprietary caching), and shipped microservices and integrations in startups and enterprise settings. He pairs a master’s in computer science with entrepreneurial experience scaling a consumer business to 30,000 users, bringing both systems depth and product intuition to complex technical challenges.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer science, Master's Degree Computer science at FESB - Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval ArchitectureHigh School Mathematics Informatics, High School Mathematics Informatics at III. gimnazija Split
English, Croatian
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Github Skills (26)
stripe10
billing9
django9
local-database9
finance9
fintech9
django-models9
python8
django-orm8
django-rest-framework7
database6
heroku6
mysql6
fluent-interface5
fluentvalidation5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
imacek/one-click-eth2-validator-node
Jan 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:15 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
IvanMacek/boggle
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:10 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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