Ian Glass
Staff Software Engineer at Pathzero
Queenstown, Otago, New Zealand
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Top SchoolIan Glass is a Staff Software Engineer and R&D-minded leader based in Queenstown, New Zealand, with eight years' experience building full-stack, serverless and embedded systems across sustainability, analytics and consumer platforms. He has driven product and technical ownership at Pathzero—rebuilding an emissions engine to increase factor coverage by 860%, creating high-performance semantic search across hundreds of thousands of entries, and shipping market-differentiating features that grew platform adoption. Ian co-founded multiple startups (Kintree, SpyCI, Savely, Intalayer), scaling a genealogy product to 22k users, architecting data pipelines that deliver over a billion monthly datapoints, and taking products through security and compliance to SOC2/Security standards. His background blends PhD-level research in bioengineering and hands-on embedded electronics with modern cloud-native stacks (Vue, NestJS, serverless AWS), giving him a rare cross-domain fluency from hardware to UX. He excels in high-autonomy roles that push engineering boundaries and often translates complex domain models (emissions, NLP clustering, energy tariffs) into practical, revenue-driving systems.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering with Honours BE(Hons), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Engineering with Honours BE(Hons), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, First Class Honours at University of CanterburyCalculus, Physics, Biology and Chemistry, Calculus, Physics, Biology and Chemistry at Campion CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Lifetime Monitoring of Pressure from Implanted Sensor, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Lifetime Monitoring of Pressure from Implanted Sensor at University of Auckland
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (3)
pyqt6
sensor6
python6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
IanGlass/embedded-bldc-controller
Mar 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
IanGlass/bazaarly
Apr 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:95 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 5 months
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