Summary
Ian Cole is a founding engineer and full-stack developer with 12 years of experience building and maintaining mission-critical web applications across Ruby on Rails and modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Ember). He has led feature development and tech initiatives—from shipping annotation workflows in SOXHUB to architecting onboarding and payment microservices—often acting as the pragmatic technical lead between product, design, and data teams. Ian has a history of rescuing and refactoring legacy systems, instituting CI/CD and testing practices, and integrating complex third-party services (Truework, Braintree, Avalara). Based in Seattle with a BS in Computer Science from Colorado State, he combines startup grit with enterprise-grade reliability and a knack for turning research or data-science models into production recommender pipelines.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Colorado State University