Ian Bentley
CTO & Cofounder at Common Sense Software
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolIan Bentley is a CTO and co-founder with 14 years of experience building data-driven, distributed systems and leading AI productization from prototype to production. Based in Montreal, he blends hands-on software engineering (from Java and distributed algorithms at MongoDB to engineering at Rent The Runway) with data science expertise honed at firstAI to help organizations extract business value from AI. As CEO/CTO of Common Sense Software and a former principal mentor at App Academy and Lighthouse Labs, he pairs technical depth with people-first leadership and startup mentorship. He favors pragmatic, human-centered AI that amplifies teams rather than replaces them, and often focuses on reliable, scalable infrastructure for real-world document and data processing.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at University of VictoriaM.Sc., Computer Science, M.Sc., Computer Science at Queen's UniversityB.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at University of Calgary
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (124)
rest-api10
bundle10
dataclasses10
sdk10
api10
rest10
json10
mongodb-database10
csharp10
mongodb10
beatbox10
php10
xml10
complexity10
nosql9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
idbentley/lighthouse-lectures
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:72 commits, 57 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
idbentley/idbentley.github.io
Feb 2019 - May 2022
blog
Contributions:1 PR, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
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