Ian Botsford
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Botsford is a Senior Software Development Engineer in Seattle with over a decade of experience building robust engineering, manufacturing, automation, and validation systems at companies including Amazon and Intel. He combines deep expertise in C#/.NET, SQL Server/MySQL, ORMs, and integration work with hands-on Windows and Linux administration to deliver reliable smart-client and server-side applications. Ian has a strong track record in database-driven solutions and protocol validation, contributing to the Smithy project by hardening its diff and protocol test suites around enums and timestamp serialization. Comfortable across the full stack from low-level validation to operational administration, he is especially skilled at turning complex compatibility requirements into practical, testable designs.
5 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Washington
Github Skills (8)
javas10
java10
smithy10
testing10
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
smithy-lang/smithy
Jul 2021 - Oct 2022
Smithy is a protocol-agnostic interface definition language and set of tools for generating clients, servers, and documentation for any programming language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 5 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Ian's commits primarily focus on refining the Smithy Diff tool, a core component of the Smithy project. They addressed compatibility concerns related to enum value insertions, flagging them as errors to maintain backward compatibility. Additionally, the user updated test cases and added new tests for various timestamp formats within the protocol test suite, ensuring the correct serialization and deserialization behavior of timestamp data. This work demonstrates a deep understanding of the Smithy framework and its internal validation processes.
smithyagnosticsmithy-modelsprogramming-languageclients
awslabs/aws-sdk-kotlin
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Multiplatform AWS SDK for Kotlin
Contributions:10 releases, 796 reviews, 147 commits in 1 year 8 months
kotlin-multiplatformandroidaws-sdksdkkotlin
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