Ian Cottingham
Director Of Software Engineering at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Cottingham is a seasoned software engineering leader with over two decades of interdisciplinary experience who currently directs engineering for EC2 Hybrid Edge at AWS, overseeing Outposts, Local Zones, and Snowball Edge. He has scaled organizations and complex distributed systems—growing teams from single digits to hundreds and owning integrations with the EC2 Nitro platform and large fleet management. Before AWS he blended academia and industry as a director and professor of practice at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he doubled capstone capacity and built industry partnerships that generated seven-figure annual project revenue. A former founder and software architect, he has shipped products from mobile apps to Java EE and .NET enterprise systems and led research-driven engineering projects that processed billion-record time series datasets. Ian combines pragmatic engineering, design thinking, and entrepreneurial instincts with a near-completed Ph.D. background, making him adept at translating research and innovation into production-grade cloud services.
13 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
German
Github Skills (14)
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gitee7
titlebar6
giphy6
github-api6
utility6
react6
tailwindcss5
menubar4
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electron4
linux3
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
icotting/Phocalstream
Jan 2013 - Feb 2013
Contributions:11 commits, 52 PRs, 56 pushes in 11 days
icotting/covid19-dashboard
Apr 2020 - Feb 2023
A data dashboard for looking at COVID-19 case data
Contributions:10 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 10 months
reactdata-dashboardcase-datadashboard
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