Kalan Macrow
Founder at Ethos
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolKalan Macrow is a seasoned software and data engineering leader with 13 years of experience building scalable data platforms and teams, currently founding Ethos to help organizations embrace AI. He co-founded Pontoon, an open-source data delivery platform, and has repeatedly led data-platform transformations at companies like Hootsuite and BioRender, blending product-minded engineering with platform reliability. Kalan’s background spans startups to large-scale operations—helping Coho Data scale from a pre-Series A to rapid growth—and he excels at translating complex business needs into production-ready data pipelines. He holds both a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from UBC and combines academic rigor with hands-on systems experience. Not obvious from titles alone, he’s comfortable founding and maintaining open-source infrastructure while also advising on data governance and sensitive research platforms. Based in Toronto, he mixes entrepreneurial grit with a practical focus on governable, ship-ready AI and data products.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc. Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
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Github Skills (18)
monitoring7
react7
database7
rust6
lucene6
time-series6
security6
java6
javascript6
applet6
scalable5
datastore5
analytics4
go4
influxdb4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kmacrow/Shellac
Oct 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:64 commits in 1 month
kmacrow/Nerio
Nov 2013 - Jan 2016
Contributions:31 commits, 1 push in 2 years 2 months
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