Ian Bird
Lead Principal Software Engineer at The Trade Desk
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Bird is a Lead Principal Software Engineer with 15 years building high-performance mobile and Connected TV experiences and leading distributed remote teams from Edinburgh. He currently helps architect The Trade Desk’s TV operating system (Ventura) and previously rebuilt Twitter’s on-device Android video re-encoding pipeline to parallelize transfers and cut latency for millions of users. An early Plex engineer, Ian led all native platforms and global engineering partnerships (Google, Apple, NVIDIA), managing 20+ remote engineers through product-scale growth. He combines hands-on systems and media pipeline expertise with proven leadership in cross-platform native development and platform partnerships, and is comfortable taking features from prototype to global scale.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
2:1 Computer Science, 2:1 Computer Science at The University of Edinburgh
Github Skills (38)
kotlin10
android-animation10
python10
java10
media-player10
android10
player10
extensible10
exoplayer10
mqtt9
automation9
privacy9
home-assistant9
aplayer9
audio9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sander1/SkyPlayer.bundle
Apr 2011 - Dec 2012
Contributions:34 commits in 1 year 8 months
openpass-sso/openpass-sample-sites
Apr 2024 - Feb 2025
A collection of sample websites that implement OpenPass
Contributions:42 reviews, 44 PRs, 57 pushes in 11 months
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