Ian Ward Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Engineering manager for three teams responsible for development and operations of Mapbox’s Search service and APIs https://docs.mapbox.com/api/search/geocoding/. Responsible for SDLC, service operations & planning, team performance & development, hiring, and various product management work.

I helped build out the first teams to work on security at Mapbox. We started with infrastructure security. This grew to encompass cloud security, IT security, organizational security, compliance, and customer assurance. We worked on everything from running our bug bounty program, to SOC 2 compliance. We started security awareness campaigns at the company.

mapbox.com/about/team/#platform

I helped scale Mapbox from nothing to billions of requests per day, and hundreds of millions of monthly active users. I helped architect and build multiple iterations of the Mapbox platform and APIs. I wrote software to power core APIs. I worked on infrastructure design, orchestration, and monitoring. I worked on problems like log aggregation and.

I co-founded Development Seed, and worked with dozens of organizations ranging from tiny NGOs to larger institutions like the World Bank and PAHO. We wrote software for these organizations to improve the way they work, and how they communicate to the world with their data. I worked on everything from writing open source software in PHP and Node.js, running.

Washington D.C. Metro Area