Philippe Mclean
Sr. Director Of Engineering at Blockstream
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolPhilippe Mclean is a seasoned engineering leader with 15+ years of experience building and scaling software and infrastructure, now serving as VP of Engineering at Blockstream in Victoria, BC. He has progressed through product and technical leadership roles at Blockstream—shaping Liquid engineering and technical product strategy—and previously led infrastructure, data and architecture teams across biotech, security, media, and consumer platforms. Philippe combines deep hands-on engineering roots from early roles at IBM and Zero-Knowledge with proven management of distributed teams and complex systems at companies like INgrooves, White Ops, and Illumina. Known for bridging product and technical execution, he brings an uncommon blend of communications training and honours-level computer science and math, which helps him translate technical trade-offs into strategic decisions.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Computer Science and Mathematics, B.Sc. Computer Science and Mathematics at University of VictoriaGraduate Diploma Communication Studies, Graduate Diploma Communication Studies at Concordia University
English, French
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Github Skills (50)
blockchain-platform10
bitcoin10
blockchain10
taxonomy9
wallet9
cryptocurrency9
rust9
elastic8
ethereum8
indexer8
decentralization8
syslog7
syslog-ng7
rocksdb7
api7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
philippem/elements-esplora
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Runs an elementsregtest network with bitcoin and liquid esploras.
Contributions:7 commits, 10 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 8 months
bitcoin
philippem/electrs
Oct 2021 - Jul 2026
An efficient re-implementation of Electrum Server in Rust
Contributions:99 pushes, 31 branches in 4 years 10 months
rust
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