Ian Golden
Team Lead, IT Information Security (IAM)
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Golden is a pragmatic technology leader with 11+ years of experience building revenue-generating web and mobile software, currently leading IAM as Team Lead, IT Information Security at Tractor Supply Company while consulting through Cloud Mill LLC. He has held senior engineering and executive roles—including VP of Engineering at BowTie and CTO at 85 Supply—where he blended hands-on development (Rails, React, AWS, serverless) with product and commercial strategy. Ian excels at translating business priorities into technical roadmaps and communicating effectively with both C-suite stakeholders and developer teams. His background includes building integrations and supply-chain-focused automation, plus a notable front-end contribution to the widely used Let’s Encrypt website fundraiser component. He thrives on solving scaling and API integration challenges and is equally comfortable pitching technical strategy to boards or pairing over coffee to vet startup ideas.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Business Entrepreneurship, Bachelor's degree Business Entrepreneurship at Ball State University
English
Stackoverflow
90reputation
6kreached
1answer
4questions
Github Skills (14)
javascript10
html9
scs8
sc8
hugo7
userjs6
http6
ssl6
curl6
amazon-web-services6
acme6
arduino6
jquery6
letsencrypt6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
letsencrypt/website
Aug 2018 - Aug 2019
Let's Encrypt Website and Documentation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 1 comment in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ian's primary contribution was implementing and modifying the fundraiser component within the Let's Encrypt website. Their work involved integrating a Shopify buy button for merchandise sales and making adjustments to the donation page's content. They updated the fundraiser bundle to incorporate new features and remove older assets. The user also made content and text adjustments to the donation page.
letsencrypthugoletencryptacme
igolden/igolden.github.io
May 2015 - May 2021
My personal blog
Contributions:2 PRs, 113 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 1 month
jekyllmy-personal-blog
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