Summary
Ian Dougherty is a software engineer and MS candidate in Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology who builds scalable, cloud-native systems with a research-backed focus on heterogeneous computing and hardware simulation. With experience at trading and finance firms including CME Group and Group One Trading, he has delivered APIs, Kubernetes proofs-of-concept, and production infrastructure for latency- and reliability-sensitive environments. He blends academic research as a university research assistant with hands-on full-stack and DevOps work, and has contributed to socially minded projects like Receptify. Based in Chicago, he brings a decade-long track record of shipping practical systems despite his early career stage, and he continually explores personal projects that bridge low-level performance and cloud orchestration. Notably, his background spans both the research tooling for heterogeneous platforms and the operational skills to migrate enterprise workloads to Google Cloud.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology