Edward Irby
Staff Software Engineer at You.com
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolEdward Irby is a Senior Software Engineer and design technologist based in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of experience building complex applications, design systems, and internal tooling that bridge design and engineering. He co-founded Plaited Labs and currently contributes at You.com, bringing startup grit alongside prior senior roles at Microsoft and Pluralsight where he focused on platform UI and developer-facing experiences. Edward excels at rapid prototyping and process design, turning ambiguous product needs into repeatable systems that scale across teams. His background weaves UX research and front-end engineering with a penchant for collaborative tooling, reflecting earlier roles as a UX architect and UI developer. Trained in international studies and business with additional coursework in social network analysis, he applies a cross-disciplinary perspective to product and team dynamics.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Certified Global Business Professional, Certificate Certified Global Business Professional at Texas Tech University - Rawls College of BusinessSeminar Introduction to Social Network Analysis, Seminar Introduction to Social Network Analysis at Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research. University of ManchesterBachelors of Science Political Science: International Studies Concentration, Bachelors of Science Political Science: International Studies Concentration at Troy University
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Github contributions (5)
youdotcom-oss/dx-toolkit
Sep 2025 - Jul 2026
Open-source toolkit enabling developers to integrate You.com's AI capabilities into their workflows
Contributions:29 releases, 15 reviews, 23 PRs in 9 months
aiai-integrationai-sdkmcpmcp-server
dxworks/dxworks
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
@dxworks is a monorepo of tools and defaults for building progressive web apps.
Contributions:52 PRs, 178 pushes, 58 branches in 3 months
monorepoprogressive-web-apps
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