Ian Livingstone
CEO Co-Founder at Self-employed
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolIan Livingstone is a seasoned software executive, entrepreneur, and investor based in Halifax, Canada, with 13+ years shaping product and platform engineering at scale. As CEO and Co-Founder of Keycard, he is building the future of agent access and identity while exploring autonomous AI-enabled trusted solutions. He previously led engineering at Cape Privacy as Co-Founder & Head of Engineering and steered the GoInstant team through its Salesforce integration to deliver real-time collaboration at scale. In addition to his startup work, he serves on the Halihax board and hosts The Infra Pod, investing in and mentoring Atlantic Canada's thriving software infrastructure community. As an investor and advisor, he backs developer tools, infrastructure, and security companies and supports funds through due diligence with a portfolio of 50+ companies. An active open-source contributor and a Dalhousie University computer science graduate, he has touched testing improvements on the Salesforce/tough-cookie project and brings a hands-on, product-minded leadership style.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Dalhousie University
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Github Skills (12)
javascript10
cookie10
testing10
nodejs9
nsstring6
git6
json6
linux6
gitpython6
codeigniter6
iphone6
mysql6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
salesforce/tough-cookie
Dec 2011 - Feb 2012
RFC6265 Cookies and CookieJar for Node.js
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributed to testing and quality assurance within the project. Their work involved modifying existing test files, updating assertions to reflect changes in dependencies, and implementing new tests to cover edge cases. The commits focused on ensuring the correct behavior of the cookie management functionalities within the library. The changes also reflect modifications to the testing infrastructure to address issues related to trailing semi-colons and constructor options, improving overall code reliability.
node-jsjavascriptnodejscookiejarcookies
manifoldco/homebrew-brew
Nov 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 16 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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