Ian Macartney Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, US

Working with companies on interesting intersections of technology and design. Slack bots, backend processing pipelines, interface design, prototyping, productionizing. I enjoy using my diverse background of disciplines and depth in backend systems from my time at Dropbox. Let's make something!

Austin, Texas, US

Helping with software to support covid vaccination & testing. Full stack development in a highly dynamic environment.

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New York, NY, US

Multiple projects with R&D:- Helping the NYT think through some new technology & implementing a consumer-facing standalone app to beta test with. Wearing design, eng, ops, and strategy hats. Super fun, tight knit, cross-functional team.- Designed & built a Computer Vision processing pipeline to enable rapid experimentation and scalability to both enable.

San Francisco, California, US

I worked on preview generation of Dropbox user content. Anything you see on the web or phone that's user content was served by my team's infrastructure. We handled billions of requests per day (mostly thumbnails) and worked with caches, operation pipelining, load balancing, sandboxing, and other interesting challenges. We interfaced with product teams to.

San Francisco, CA, US

For one project I designed, architected, coded, integrated and delivered an executive demo connecting sensors (via I2S) to a microprocessor (embedded C) to Android (via USB) to Python (via zeromq) to a web API (written in node.js) using google protocol buffers. On other projects I quickly prototyped iPhone & iPad app demos to prove out cutting-edge.

Developing new green products to showcase in Stanford's Start.Home, our entry to the Solar Decathalon. I developed an iPad app, designed and built a chair to decrease water usage for shaving legs in the shower, consulted with teammates on firmware, mechanical, and electronics design, and stepped up to scheduling a project that was falling behind.

Mountain View, CA, US

As the iPhone lead I organized releases, planned and managed the iPhone team's sprints, and coordinated with the Server, Product, and Design teams, while contributing as a full time developer. As a developer, I wrote core and experimental features, web-based prototypes, internal utilities & libraries, and helped develop our A/B testing framework. I lead.

Mountain View, CA, US

I worked on the iPhone app, making regular improvements, while also prototyping other features and interactions. I also tried to participate in design decisions when possible.

Mountain View, CA, US

I built the Music sharing feature of Bump after prototyping a lot of different music-related interactions. I also implemented smaller features and low-level improvements, such as implementing offline file-based caching with invalidation.

San Mateo, CA, US

Developed prototype software for the Missile Defense Agency to prove the feasibility of three major enhancements to an existing, state-of-the-art ballistic missile intercept engagement planning system. This involved developing a hybrid centralized/ distributed planner that did inter-process communication using JMS and doing scenario testing and statistical.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering

Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction