Ryan Maclean
Senior Advocate
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolRyan Maclean is a Senior Advocate with 11 years of experience building and evangelizing cloud-native, observability, and automation solutions from hands-on systems work to developer-focused advocacy. Based in Vancouver, he blends deep operations pedigree—Linux, AWS/Azure, Terraform, Ansible, ELK/Dynatrace—with developer outreach at Datadog where he translates complex infra problems into practical guidance. His background includes leading Data and Digital Ops, large-scale migrations, and running CI/CD and configuration automation across enterprise environments. A pragmatic tinkerer, he contributes to open-source projects like QMK firmware (adding custom keymaps and core tweaks) and experiments with GenAI, OpenTofu, Ansible, Bash and Python in his spare time. He’s equally comfortable debugging container failover or scripting cloud migrations as he is demoing solutions to developer audiences. That mix of deep systems know-how, developer empathy, and active open-source curiosity helps him bridge product, engineering, and community effectively.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BCS, Computer Science, BCS, Computer Science at Dalhousie UniversityBA, CSEng, Computer Science, Arts, BA, CSEng, Computer Science, Arts at University of New Brunswick
Japanese, French, English
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Github Skills (26)
keyboard-input10
atmel10
qmk-firmware10
firmware10
qmk10
c-programming10
c1110
keymaps10
remap10
keyboard10
c1710
avr10
keyboard-layout10
keymapping10
customisation10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
qmk/qmk_firmware
Apr 2017 - Aug 2017
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 7 PRs, 8 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the QMK firmware, focusing on keymap layouts for various keyboard configurations. They added new keymaps for different layouts like "Maximized," "Ortho," and Mac versions of existing keyboard layouts, which involved defining key positions and layer functionality. The user also made modifications to the core keyboard definitions within the `.h` files, demonstrating a deep understanding of the firmware's structure and the ability to tailor it to various physical keyboard designs.
rp2040firmwareavratmelkeyboard-support
ryanmaclean/eks_infra
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:30 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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