Ian Gorton
Director For Mobility Programs at Northeastern University
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Gorton is an international software architecture leader and academic who blends deep research credentials (PhD, ~150 refereed publications, h-index 38) with hands-on R&D and program leadership. He has led large multidisciplinary teams at PNNL, CSIRO and Northeastern, secured roughly $30M in research funding, and scaled Northeastern Seattle’s MSCS from 25 to ~400 students with a 100% employment rate. A Laboratory Fellow and former SEI senior staffer, he specializes in data-intensive architectures, adaptive middleware and scientific software products while also supervising PhD research and teaching. Notably, he has driven measurable diversity outcomes—his program is 53% female—and has a track record of translating academic research into impactful, funded engineering programs.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Sheffield Hallam University
Github Skills (13)
distributed-systems10
scalability10
scalable10
distributed-computing10
ranking8
science8
computer-science7
react7
application-server7
publish6
workload6
benchmark5
golang4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gortonator/bsds-6650
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
CS6650 Building Scalable Distributed Systems
Contributions:3 reviews, 519 commits, 50 PRs in 3 years 6 months
scalabledistributed-computingdistributed-systemsscalabilitydistributed
cloudperftesting/WearableTestCase
Apr 2019 - Oct 2020
Initial server application and workload generators
Contributions:22 commits, 4 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 6 months
golanggeneratorsinitialapplication-serverworkload
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