Ian Downard
Senior Software Development Engineer - AdTech MarTech at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolIan Downard is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 14 years of experience building cloud-native solutions across AdTech, MarTech, video processing, and computer vision. Based in Portland, he currently develops privacy-first advertising tools at AWS that enable non-technical marketers to plan campaigns and activate customer data while preserving user privacy. His prior work includes serverless ML-driven video search and a published AWS multimedia workflow engine, reflecting a blend of systems engineering and applied machine learning. Ian’s background spans developer evangelism, data platforms, and embedded research—he began his career optimizing MANET protocols at the U.S. Naval Research Lab and later translated that systems expertise into scalable cloud services. Known for turning complex research and machine learning into production-ready products, he pairs deep technical chops with a talent for making advanced capabilities accessible to everyday users.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik, German Studies, Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik, German Studies at Lewis and Clark CollegeMS degree; BS, Computer Engineering; thesis, MS degree; BS, Computer Engineering; thesis at Missouri University of Science and Technology
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (164)
previews10
bicep10
mapr10
arm10
high-speed10
azure10
blueprint10
media-services10
arm-templates10
video-processing9
audio9
trading9
dropzone9
drag9
intellij9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
iandow/kafka_junit_tests
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:52 commits, 49 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
mapr-demos/customer360
Jun 2017 - Aug 2018
Customer 360 analytics powered by MapR
Contributions:100 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year 1 month
marketing-toolsanalyticswarehousemapr
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