Ian Graves is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade-plus track record of modernizing legacy systems and leading backend engineering teams across startups and mid-size companies. He blends strong Java and JavaScript expertise with practical Python and cloud experience, having driven migrations, architecture refactors, and production integrations (Stripe, PostGIS, OpenFGA) to improve scalability and developer velocity. Ian has repeatedly stepped into staff-level responsibilities—introducing Agile practices, mentoring engineers, and implementing observability with OpenTelemetry—to reduce time-to-resolution and improve delivery predictability. He’s comfortable across the stack and platforms (AWS, Lambda, Apple Arm64 assessments) and has a knack for pragmatic solutions that avoid full rewrites while unlocking new capabilities. Based in Wisconsin, he pairs a Software Engineering degree from RIT with hands-on leadership at companies like Activeloop and Greenlight Guru, and is affiliated on GitHub as activeloopai.
2 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Software Engineering Concentration in Interactive Entertainment, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Software Engineering Concentration in Interactive Entertainment at Rochester Institute of Technology
Database for AI. Store Vectors, Images, Texts, Videos, etc. Use with LLMs/LangChain. Store, query, version, & visualize any AI data. Stream data in real-time to PyTorch/TensorFlow. https://activeloop.ai
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