Ian Edington
Manager Of Innovation And Technology
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolIan Edington is a technology leader with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack products and teams, currently leading Innovation and Technology at the Green Party of Ontario. He has shipped cross-functional systems at Faire—spanning React frontends, Kotlin backends, and Python data pipelines—and authored the popular open-source mjml-react email tooling. A serial founder and operator, Ian launched marketplaces and civic-notification services that won startup competitions and generated measurable user and revenue outcomes. He combines product-minded engineering with business analysis experience from earlier roles, enabling pragmatic solutions that bridge customer needs and technical constraints. Now on a sabbatical and refocusing on the repair and after-sales sector, he’s keen to apply his expertise to uplift maintenance workflows and service experiences. Based in Kitchener, he brings entrepreneurial curiosity and a track record of creating developer-friendly tools and operational improvements.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
1st Year Engineering & The Basic Military Officer Qualification (BMOQ) Engineering, 1st Year Engineering & The Basic Military Officer Qualification (BMOQ) Engineering at Royal Military College of Canada/Collège militaire royal du CanadaCertificate Business Administration & Management Business Administration and Management General, Certificate Business Administration & Management Business Administration and Management General at HEC MontréalComputer Science, Computer Science at Athabasca UniversityChemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering at Queen's University
English, French
Stackoverflow
496reputation
270kreached
9answers
6questions
Github Skills (200)
testing10
to-do10
vim10
jsx10
ecosystem10
html10
json10
karabiner10
html-email10
nodejs10
css10
php10
email-templates10
text-table10
nunjucks10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
gpo/gpo-platform-configs
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Infrastructure as Code for the GPO
Contributions:21 reviews, 36 PRs, 32 pushes in 6 months
Faire/mjml-react
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
React component library to generate the HTML emails on the fly
Contributions:63 reviews, 22 commits, 34 PRs in 2 years
react-componentreacthtml-emailsemailemails
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