Ian Candy
Senior Software Engineer, Open Source Program Office at GitHub
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolIan Candy is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently shaping Copilot Experiences at GitHub after progressively impactful roles across the company’s Open Source Program Office and Special Projects teams. He blends back-end Rails and Sinatra expertise with product-minded engineering, having built instructor-facing tools and assessment algorithms earlier in his career at Flatiron School. Ian has strong teaching and mentorship instincts—he led distributed instructional teams, scaled education programs to hundreds of students, and authored test-driven curricula—skills he brings to cross-functional initiatives and developer tooling. His background also includes hands-on ops and customer-facing technical support from roles at Tekserve and as a school technology coordinator, giving him a practical appreciation for operational reliability and user experience. Based in Pittsburgh, he pairs a BS in Economics with immersive web development training and a track record of shipping tested, maintainable features and improving developer workflows. Notably, his open-source contributions emphasize backend feature work and test coverage, reflecting a focus on correctness and long-term code health.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Economics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Economics at Penn State UniversityWeb Development Immersive, Web Development Immersive at Flatiron School
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Github Skills (15)
testing10
activerecord10
rspec10
user-authentication10
sinatra10
rails10
authentication10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
model-view-controller9
html9
sql8
githubaction-workflow5
github-ci5
css4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ipc103/python-variables-readme-data-science-intro-000
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:235 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
learn-co-curriculum/prework-videos-cli-essentials-bash-overview
Jul 2019 - May 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 10 months
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