Ian Heraty
Co-Founder at Discovery Partners Institute
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolIan Heraty is a founder and polyglot software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack, mobile, and hardware-integrated products from idea to revenue. He co-founded Receipt-AI, creating an AI-driven receipt ingestion platform, and previously launched a successful food truck marketplace while teaching advanced software curricula at Discovery Partners Institute where 95% of his trainees met or exceeded on-the-job expectations. His hands-on background spans shipping mobile apps and firmware for smart locks, leading client-facing engineering at Nerdery, and localizing consumer IoT for international markets—skills that make him comfortable at the intersection of hardware, machine learning, and product. Based in Chicago, he combines first-principles problem solving with a knack for rapid execution and team mentorship, and his early work in China helped him gain fluency in Mandarin and cross-cultural leadership experience.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Arts (BA) at University of Notre Dame
English, Chinese, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (59)
rails10
ruby10
html10
activemodel10
mvc9
ruby-on-rails9
activerecord9
spree8
redux-store8
heroku-deployment8
marp8
javascript-api7
netlify7
testing7
redux7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DPI-WE/rubric
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
Rubrics used in workforce education program.
Contributions:18 reviews, 16 PRs, 59 pushes in 1 year 1 month
DPI-WE/fun-facts
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:25 reviews, 13 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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