Ian MacLeod

My background includes leading domestic and international software engineering teams in addition to architecting software that scales while being easily maintainable. I am a proponent of clean architecture and SOLID engineering principles, having seen these concepts transform codebases from being fractured and fragile to being well-architected products that require minimal effort to enhance and maintain.

My achievements include:

• Architecting and releasing cloud-based, scalable applications in Amazon Web Services and Azure
• Accelerating my team's developer productivity by 20% after writing AI-powered workflow automations in Claude Code and GitHub Copilot
• Optimizing backend ETL processes for analytics data in order to improve their runtime by a factor of 10
• Leveraging dependency injection and inversion to improve the render time of an enterprise frontend application by over 1,000%
• Building a Salesforce Marketing cloud solution that saved my employer $250,000 in third-party consulting fees

As a creative outlet I founded the independent game development studio Stellar Oasis. The first title that I released was the arcade-style game Notified on the Steam platform. Notified is a fast-paced game with a theme of endless phone notifications and is a love letter to the classic game Pong. To date, Notified has been played by thousands.

I am fortunate as my career has included delivering widely used applications for Fortune 500 companies, building beautifully designed user-centric products, as well as working with some of the best technical mentors in the software engineering industry.

In my experience the most cohesive teams deliver the best results and I focus as much on software quality as I do on team communication and collaboration. Humility and cooperation will always outperform egos and attitude, and these traits are embodied by the high-performing teams that I repeatedly build.