Patrick Mccann
Chair, Prebid.js at Raptive
Newark, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Mccann is a data-driven product and engineering leader with 10+ years building yield optimization, audience segmentation, and programmatic advertising systems. As Chair of Prebid.js and long-time board member at Prebid.org, he combines hands-on front-end contributions to the widely used open-source header-bidding project with strategic product stewardship. At Raptive he leads research and data science, shipping analytics, site optimization, and an exchange bidder built on RTBKit while operating complex ETL and modeling pipelines (Hive/EMR, R, Python). With an MS in Statistics and a background in large-scale audience measurement (comScore, eXelate), he blends rigorous statistical thinking with practical engineering to improve publisher yield. Colleagues rely on him for translating high-dimensional analytics into production-ready systems and pragmatic decisions that drive revenue.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Statistics, M.S., Statistics at Virginia TechB.S., Economics, B.S., Economics at George Mason University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
adaptor10
javascript10
header-bidding10
adapter10
prebid10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
prebid/Prebid.js
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
Setup and manage header bidding advertising partners without writing code or confusing line items. Prebid.js is open source and free.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 2932 reviews, 201 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily focused on front-end development within the Prebid.js repository, working on various aspects of the project. Their contributions include fixing event listener issues, deprecating and removing outdated code references related to ad unit sizes. They also added advertiserDomains to different bid adapters. These changes indicate a focus on maintaining and improving the core functionality and integration of advertising partners within the header-bidding framework.
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patmmccann/Prebid.js
Jan 2020 - Mar 2021
Setup and manage header bidding advertising partners without writing code or confusing line items. Prebid.js is open source and free.
Contributions:6 PRs, 207 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 2 months
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