MACLEOD SAWYER

CYBERNETICIST // SYSTEMS AUTOMATION ARCHITECT
Contact: mail@macleod.ee
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CURRENT

DNX INDUSTRIES 2017 - Current

Director (CEO) & Roboticist

Founder of DNX Industries, an industrial robotics and automation laboratory focusing on modular automation hardware and software platforms.

For Discovery and Exploration.

Robotics Modular Systems Industrial Automation

WALMART GLOBAL SECURITY &
TELAID INDUSTRIES 2024 - Current

Systems Automation Architect

Architect of Project Saturn for the WM Global Security > Automation Lab, developing critical network and automation security infrastructure across all retail and corporate environments.

Automation Network Infrastructure Systems Integration Project SATURN
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PREVIOUSLY

IDEADROPS INC 2014 - 2017

Founder

Crafting digital tools to enhance visibility and fundraising for non-profits and other related organizations that inspire grassroot communication and coordination.

We raised hundreds of thousands for progressive candidates across rural America, and worked directly with the Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign.

Key Projects: GoodPlatform, CharityDrops, MxMedia

Acquired in 2017

Digital Platform Non-Profit Tech Content Strategy

MxMEDIA 2014 - 2017

Founder

Established a wide ranging social media presence across a dozen blogs focusing on activism, technology, and social impact, reaching well-over 30M monthly users entirely through organic means.

Media Systems Content Strategy Audience Growth

ACTIVITY+ 2012 - 2014

Co-Founder

One of the first social media analytics platforms. We pioneered engagement analytics platform optimizing social media content timing. Engineering foundational systems for maximizing user interaction through behavioral pattern recognition and predictive analytic algorithms.

Acquired by Bettr.io in July 2014

Analytics Social Media Predictive Systems

TECHNICAL CONSULTING

Analyzing and implementing security protocols and hardware optimization strategies for specialized consumer, corporate, and government environments.

Work has been completed in the development of consumer and corporate repair programs, technical support, and deployed hundreds of critical network infrastructure upgrades for government health agencies during the COVID-19 pandemic response operation.

Security Infrastructure Crisis Response

KEY PROJECTS

CHARITYDROPS.ORG

A charitable platform for aggregating monthly donations for optimal distribution to emerging charitable organizations to maximize philanthropic impact.

Financial Systems Automated Curation

GOODPLATFORM.ORG

Communication and engagement platform enabling grassroot organizations with integrated fundraising and mobilization tools. Over 30,000 monthly active users within the first three months.

Engagement Political Tech Fundraising

AFFILIATIONS

BACKGROUND

I have been tinkering and breaking systems since I started programming at six years old, and building robots since I was a teenager. Over the years this foundation has grown to discovering deep knowledge on a multitude of programming languages and paradigms, with a particular focus on leveraging historical analytical evidence to create secure automated solutions with hard real-time performance requirements.

I have always worked to expand my heart definition of computational thinking, through studying not just technology, but history, society, transformations, though psychological, evolutionary, or any other means to find the connections between society and technology. I am a firm believe in progressive automation. A concept with multiple layers in meaning, but primarily the idea that through kind automation we can create a world actually worth living in, dedicated to leisure, art, equality and freedom, and boundless exponential discoveries of inventions surrounding us in our universe.

The purpose of humanity isn't to work more, it's to work less and have more leisure. This is what sets us apart from the past, and makes a life worth living. We must develop, build, and automate away all the mindless monotony of the day so that we can 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘦 to happily work on the hard problems of life.⁣

Hardware Hacking Cybernetics Robotics Embedded Systems Automation Security