Summary
Ian Bettinger is a Data Scientist and DevOps Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building large-scale automation, deployment, and data-driven systems at companies including Apple, Yahoo!, and Amazon. He designs and re-architects critical infrastructure—most recently developing a privacy-preserving service routing system that routes billions of requests daily and migrating it from Jenkins/MapReduce/HDFS to Airflow/Spark/Iceberg on S3. Ian blends hands-on engineering (Perl, PHP, C/C++, shell, SQL and MySQL/Oracle administration) with operations-centered data science to uncover service bottlenecks and improve customer experience. He has a track record of turning manual operational workflows into robust, automated services, from certificate management to asset-truth APIs for data center management. Based in Portland, he pairs deep systems knowledge with pragmatic product sensibilities, often surfacing useful KPIs and dashboards that make complex telemetry actionable for stakeholders. An unusual strength is his longstanding experience in Japanese text processing alongside high-scale deployment tooling, which reflects both linguistic and technical versatility.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San Diego