Summary
Neil Macneale is a software engineer and engineering leader with over two decades in the industry, specializing in developer productivity tools, CI/CD, and operationalizing large distributed systems. He has led teams at Fauna, AWS, Oracle, and Google, and now contributes to Git-for-data at DoltHub, bringing hands-on version control expertise to data workflows. Neil blends deep engineering with management experience—building durable developer tools, automation, and release pipelines that have driven millions of releases per month. Rooted in a maker mindset learned from his carpenter father, he favors bespoke tooling: from long-lived platform services to quick scripts that eliminate daily pain points. Based in Seattle, he pairs a practical, systems-first approach with a track record of improving developer experience across legacy and greenfield environments.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Berkeley
University of California Santa Cruz