Summary: Senior full-stack product engineer, leading major launches across web and desktop clients. I worked cross functionally with engineering, product, and design to build and ship fast, delightful products. I served as a technical leader (non-managerial) for a team of 4-6 engineers working on the "Home" surfaces of the Dropbox clients. Responsibilities included:- Designing, advocating for, and implementing architecture for the new features, in collaboration with key stakeholders on adjacent teams.- Ensuring product quality through test coverage and performance tracking and improvement.- Mentoring other engineers on the team through 1:1 mentorship, code reviews, white boarding sessions, and architecture reviews.- Collaborating with product and design teams to prioritize work and plan the product roadmap with an eye toward delivering maximum value for our engineering investment. Notable accomplishments:- Led team from inception to launch building new notifications and activity interface for the Dropbox desktop client.- Led team from inception to launch building new Dropbox.com signed-in home page.- Authored nearly 700 commits over 4 years, modifying over 100,000 lines of code. Top 10% contributor in codebase.- Conducted more than 1000 code reviews of pull requests, covering more than half of all commits from team members.Quotes from team members:"Ian is always the first to respond to any fire in the field, and communicating it with people outside our team.""He makes sure the team works on the right things, and speaks up when the team might be overcommitted.""He consistently has an eye towards the quality of the product and is someone I can learn from."

Co-founder of Picolab, collaboration workspace software for schools. Responsibilities included writing all code, interaction design, conducting user research, and fundraising.Key accomplishments:- Built and launched the Picolab meeting facilitation product. Features implemented included collaborative document editing, calendar integration, text chat, video chat, agendas, tasks, attachments, and email reminders.- Adopted by Ravenswood and Chicago Public Schools districts, used over multiple school years.- Accepted into and launched through Imagine K12 education accelerator (now a part of Y Combinator).

Developed the web interface for the handle.com one-page app webmail client, including a wide number of features used for email rendering, email triaging, and navigating around the app. Served as feature lead on successful large-scale rearchitecture. Worked across the stack on iOS. Created custom gesture recognizers, implemented client/server syncing logic, managed records via Core Data, and implemented multiple user-interface components.Wrote multiple features for syncing metadata to/from IMAP in Ruby. Added multiple Rails API end-points for consumption by web and iOS clients, and wrote model code as necessary. Languages:Coffeescript and Knockout.js (an angular-like framework) for front-end work. Jasmine for testing.Ruby/Ruby on Rails for back-end work. RSpec and some Capybara for testing.Objective-C for iOS work. Some Cedar for testing.

Master in Information Management and Systems.