Ian Brown
Manager, Java Platform
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Brown is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years of experience building and scaling platform and runtime infrastructure for hyperscale services, currently managing Netflix's Java Platform teams in San Francisco. He has a deep operational and systems background—leading JVM, kernel, performance, observability, and deployment teams at Netflix and Twitter—to make services faster, cheaper, and easier to build. Ian combines hands-on technical credibility (OpenJDK-derived JVM work, custom GC/JIT, and performance tooling) with people leadership that helps talented engineers deliver high-impact, production-grade systems. An XML apologist and Erlang enthusiast by inclination, he brings pragmatic curiosity and a track record of driving cross-functional engineering improvements across large organizations.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BA Philosophy, BA Philosophy at University of Wisconsin-MadisonHorace Greeley High School
Github Skills (8)
erl7
elisp7
emacs5
text-editor4
brokers3
client-library3
stomp3
golang2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
igb/levenshtein
Jul 2018 - Feb 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
igb/fof
Oct 2018 - Jan 2024
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
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