Summary
Graham Swan is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience designing and shipping web products and browser extensions, currently leading technical direction at vidIQ from an early-engineer position. He combines hands-on engineering with team-building—mentoring peers, hiring talent, and introducing modern practices and automated release processes to improve velocity. His career spans startups and consulting, from founding student projects that logged millions of game moves to building e-commerce and content-focused platforms for clients. Based in Columbia, Missouri, he pairs pragmatic engineering with product empathy, focused on tooling that meaningfully improves creators’ workflows. An early tendency toward operational work (servers, testing, XML-RPC) and even beekeeping hints at a practical, systems-oriented mindset and patience for long-lived, complex systems.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Software Engineering, BSc, Software Engineering at University of Alberta