Ian B
Principal Engineer at Adobe
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIan B is a Principal Engineer with 20+ years building internet-scale distributed systems, currently leading a global team of over 1,000 engineers at Adobe to deliver Adobe Experience Manager Cloud Service and an AI agent-enabled ecosystem based on A2A and MCP standards. He combines deep academic roots—a first in Engineering and a PhD in Parallel Computing—with hands-on experience from research labs to enterprise and open-source projects, including core backend contributions to the Sakai learning platform. Ian’s career blends product-facing cloud architecture, SaaS/PaaS design, and operational leadership for globally distributed infrastructure that serves billions of daily interactions. He has long-standing involvement in standards and foundations (W3C AI Agent Protocol community, Apache PMC member) which informs his pragmatic approach to interoperable systems. Notably, his path moved from parallel high-performance computing to shaping modern AI-enabled experience management, giving him rare fluency across low-level performance, large-scale orchestration, and education technology. Based in Cambridge, UK, he still finds time to contribute to open-source test and kernel-level backend work that keeps production systems robust.
20 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Engineering Computing Science and Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Engineering Computing Science and Mathematics at University of HullRugby School
Github Skills (13)
javas10
java10
testing10
springframework9
event-tracking8
content-management7
apidoc7
emailjs7
content-management-system7
mailserver7
api7
email-server7
e-mail7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sakaiproject/sakai
Apr 2006 - Jan 2009
Sakai is a freely available, feature-rich technology solution for learning, teaching, research and collaboration. Sakai is an open source software suite developed by a diverse and global adopter community.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1724 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ian focused on migrating the test harness and tests to the kernel, addressing test failures, and ensuring the build runs correctly. This involved modifying Java code within the `kernel/component-manager` and `kernel/kernel-impl` directories, suggesting a focus on core system functionality and testing infrastructure. Several commits addressed issues with the email service and content management, with changes to the underlying source code. This indicates a strong involvement in the core backend infrastructure.
diversesakaivlefeature-richfreely
ieb/CanDiagnose
Oct 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:36 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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