Summary
Ian Gu is a pragmatic software engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack and cloud-native systems, currently an SDE at AWS after internships and short-term SWE roles at Meta and AWS. He combines strong ownership and leadership with a track record of shipping impactful optimizations—cutting page wait times in half and driving 8x organic growth for a restaurant service—and has built full platforms, CI-driven deployments, and secure migrations. Comfortable across React, Java Spring Boot, SQL, and cloud environments, he focuses on maintainable, modular code that accelerates delivery timelines. Based in Toronto, he balances thorough, reliable engineering with a persistent curiosity for new technologies, which he showcases on his personal site iangu.me.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Toronto