Ian Allison
Technology Manager at Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolIan Allison is a Technology Manager with over a decade of experience leading infrastructure and service delivery at the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences in Vancouver. He is the technical lead for Syzygy and Callysto, projects that scale Jupyter-based learning and research platforms across Canadian higher education and K–12, blending educational outreach with production-grade systems. With a PhD in Mathematics and Physics and prior postdoctoral work at TRIUMF, he brings deep scientific rigor to platform engineering and reproducible research tooling. Known for translating complex academic needs into reliable, user-friendly services, he focuses on accessibility and scalability rather than flashy features.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Mathematics and Physics, Ph.D, Mathematics and Physics at University of Glasgow
Github Skills (166)
notebook10
python10
ipython10
automation10
ssh10
jupyter-widget10
ansible10
science10
julia10
deploying10
jupyter10
multi-user10
solaris10
jupyterlab-extension10
jupyter-notebook10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
callysto/callysto-ssp-theme
Oct 2021 - Dec 2024
Theme for SimpleSAMLphp
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
simplesamlphp
pimsmath/one-two-syzygy
Aug 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:7 PRs, 66 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 1 month
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