Ian Asaff
Software Architect at Bitcentric LLC
Scituate, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Asaff is a software architect and hands-on engineering leader with 14+ years of experience building everything from weekend prototypes to production systems that scale to millions of requests. He blends product-minded technical architecture—Elixir/Phoenix, distributed messaging, and AI-driven pipelines—with team-building expertise, having grown small co-located teams into globally distributed engineering organizations and navigated SOC 2/HIPAA compliance for healthcare products. Ian moves fluidly between startups and enterprise (Salesforce, PayPal) and runs a boutique consultancy helping non-technical founders make pragmatic tech decisions, including AI strategy and compliance trade-offs. An active open-source contributor, he improved build/publish workflows for the Erlang/Elixir package manager hex, showing attention to developer experience as well as runtime scale. With an MS in Computer Science and a BA in English, he pairs technical depth with unusually strong cross-audience communication—from interns to investors—and a playful insistence on typographic flourishes (em dashes included).
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Romantic Poetry Post Modern Literature, Romantic Poetry Post Modern Literature at St Catherine's College, OxfordMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Tufts University
Github Skills (5)
erlang10
package-management10
elixir-mix10
elixir10
testing10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hexpm/hex
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Package manager for the Erlang ecosystem.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 12 PRs, 32 comments in 21 days
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributed to the `hexpm/hex` package manager, focusing on improvements to build and publish tasks. They implemented a new build task and refactored existing build and publish tasks for better code organization. The user also improved error messages related to locked dependencies and addressed missing file warnings during package publishing.
erlangelixirpackage-managererlang-vm
montague/montague.github.com
Mar 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:16 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 3 months
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