Ian Bennett Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

Core API Platform - GraphQLExecuted HomeTimeline migration from REST to GraphQL by analyzing, documenting, disseminating, and driving efficiency improvements to handle 45k+ fields per query, 100k’s of queries per second, resulting in 50% fewer compute and observability resources, saving $$ millions annuallyIdentified developer experience issues, educated.

San Francisco, CA, US

Engineer on the Core Systems Libraries (CSL) team, which include Twitter OSS projects - Finagle and Finatra.Streamlined Privacy and Data Protection compliance (GDPR, FTC Consent Decree) via design, implementation, documentation, and support of Finatra mTLS framework integrationDeveloper Experience - Saved quarters of engineering time and compute resources.

San Francisco, CA, US

Twitter Observability TeamTech Lead for the mission critical Observability stack responsible for visualization, alerting, storage, and querying over 4.3 Billion unique operational service metrics written per minuteStabilized team, growing from 4 to 12 engineers, lead extensive knowledge sharing, drove 90% reduction of 24x7 on-call alerts through.

I have been helping make Watson more accessible to the masses, through the Watson Developer Cloud and the Watson Natural Language Classifier service available via BlueMix. I have driven the adoption of Behavior Driven Development within our engineering team, driven the use and education of Dependency Injection, architected key components of our REST.

Software Performance Test Team Lead for Watson Solutions Core Division. Responsible for memory reduction, bottleneck discovery, code level optimizations, software architecture design, system measurement, analysis, and improvement. Designed and maintain scalable performance framework and tools for generating and measuring load against the Watson Pipeline..

Developed and maintained highly scalable performance tools for measuring the LotusLive Meetings web conferencing application and its various real time features. This included coverage and user simulation for audio, video, application share, slide presentation, and chat, amongst others. My responsibilities included measuring, analyzing, and presenting data.