Summary
Ian Hirschfeld is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Los Angeles with 12 years of experience building interactive media, web and mobile platforms, and immersive virtual reality experiences. He blends a Computer Science and Digital Art background to lead cross-disciplinary teams and ship products that span frontend, backend, 3D animation, custom hardware prototyping, and VR. Ian has held engineering and leadership roles at Unity and Sixfold, founded The Soap Collective and Role, Inc., and has a track record of taking projects from prototype to production for clients like Google and Capital One. He’s comfortable driving infrastructure migrations and compliance work as well as hands-on feature development, and brings an entrepreneur’s sense for product, finance, and client relationships. A fan of The Neverending Story and The Matrix, he brings a creative storyteller’s perspective to technical problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science and Digital Arts, BS Computer Science and Digital Arts at Northeastern University