Ian Cox
Software Engineering Manager at PensionSync
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolIan Cox is a hands-on Software Engineering Manager and long-time tech leader with 12+ years of experience, currently running EU engineering at Employment Hero while still steering PensionSync as CTO. He blends day-to-day coding with technical project leadership, having risen from developer roles at OD2 and Universal Music to multiple CTO positions. A practical full-stack engineer fluent in C#/.NET, Ian has contributed meaningful cross-platform, test-backed improvements to notable open-source projects like ExcelDataReader. Based in London, he excels at turning legacy systems into maintainable, portable codebases and shipping reliable integrations for payroll and pensions. Colleagues know him as the “know-it-all” for PensionSync—equally comfortable in strategic decisions and fixing tricky binary-reader bugs late at night.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Itchen CollegeUniversity of Bristol
Github Skills (11)
net10
asp-net10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
csharp10
excel10
dotnet-core10
xls7
parserator7
xlsx7
parser7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ExcelDataReader/ExcelDataReader
Jul 2014 - Jun 2016
Lightweight and fast library written in C# for reading Microsoft Excel files
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:39 commits, 9 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Ian appears to have contributed significantly to the project by adding a portable library and restructuring existing project files, suggesting a focus on code maintainability and cross-platform compatibility. They also worked on implementing and integrating dataset helpers, as well as adding tests for binary reader functionality. These changes indicate the user has strong knowledge of C# and .NET.
xlsxdotnetxlsopenxmlxlsb
Ian1971/mcbuilderwand
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 30 commits, 11 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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