Ian Connolly
Senior Engineering Manager at Snowflake
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolIan Connolly is a San Francisco–based engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling backend systems and teams across startups and established tech companies. He has progressed from hands-on roles at Dark (contributing core language and DB support to the Darklang repo) and Scribd to senior engineering leadership at LeapYear and Snowflake, blending deep technical fluency with people management. Ian is comfortable digging into language runtimes, parsing, and database integrations while also setting strategy and delivery for larger orgs. Originally from Ireland and trained at Trinity College Dublin, he brings a pragmatic, developer-first approach to infrastructure-heavy problems and a track record of shipping durable systems in production.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Trinity College DublinLeaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate at Portmarnock Community School
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Github Skills (7)
back-end-development10
ocaml10
language-design9
functional-programming8
programming-language8
database-design8
postgresql7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
darklang/dark
Sep 2017 - May 2020
Darklang main repo, including language, backend, and infra
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1861 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ian contributed to the Darklang project's back-end development, focusing on implementing and fixing features related to function calls, infix nesting, and lambda bodies, as well as improvements in error handling and parsing. Their work involved modifications to the core language, backend infrastructure, and database interactions, as evidenced by code changes in client and server-side components. A significant portion of the commits revolve around adding and refining database type support within the system.
functional-programmingdarklangcloudbackendeditor
IanConnolly/slides
Mar 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:59 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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