Ian Clarke
Founder at Uprizer Labs
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Clarke is a veteran computer scientist and serial founder with 25 years building decentralized systems, AI-driven products, and scalable adtech infrastructure from Austin, Texas. He designed Freenet—the pioneering decentralized peer-to-peer network whose 2000 paper became one of that year's most cited CS works—and continues to lead a modern rewrite aimed at serving as a drop-in replacement for the web. Ian has founded and scaled multiple startups (Revver, OneSpot, Thoof) and architected high-throughput machine-learning systems and realtime bidding engines that competed with major incumbents. Equally comfortable in research and hands-on engineering, he remains an active full-stack contributor to freenet-core toolchains and project integrations. His background in AI and cryptographic contracts informs a pragmatic focus on privacy-preserving, decentralized alternatives to centralized services.
25 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science at The University of Edinburgh
Github Skills (10)
python10
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
api8
apim8
rust6
privacy4
net4
decentralization4
cryptography4
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
freenet/freenet-core
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Declare your digital independence
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:84 reviews, 244 commits, 133 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributed to the `locutus` project, demonstrating skills in web contract development, and infrastructure integration. The user added a new script to synchronize Github Issues and Pivotal Tracker. They made multiple attempts to fix errors in the script and included debugging statements. The changes suggest the user is involved in maintaining the project's tooling and workflows.
cryptographydeclaredistributed-hash-tableprivacyrust
sanity/maven-repo
Jun 2012 - Aug 2014
Contributions:110 commits in 2 years 2 months
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