Ian Hollander
Staff Software Engineer at Flatiron School
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Hollander is a Staff Software Engineer based in the New York City area who transitioned from a decade-plus career programming major film festivals into building full‑stack web applications. With eight years of professional engineering experience and three years focused on product and user-facing work at a top-tier film festival, he blends strong front-end React skills, test-driven development, and Rails backend experience to deliver maintainable, well-tested systems. At Foothold Technology he progressed from engineer to staff, leading feature development, refactors, and test-suite improvements that emphasize reliability and developer ergonomics. A former film programmer who spotted tech opportunities in festivals, he pairs creative problem‑solving with a persistent curiosity and a knack for turning legacy workflows into modern, production-ready software.
7 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Film Studies, Bachelor's degree, Film Studies at Wesleyan University
Github Skills (40)
javascript10
back-end-development10
session-management10
testing10
jes10
component-development10
css10
rspec10
user-interface10
rails10
redux10
ruby10
mochajs10
testing-library10
sinatra10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
learn-co-curriculum/react-hooks-react-router-routes-lab
Dec 2020 - Jan 2022
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Ian primarily focused on updating and maintaining the testing suite for the React application. Their contributions included modifying and adding tests for various components like App, NavBar, Actors, Directors, Movies, and Home. The code changes demonstrate a focus on ensuring the proper rendering and functionality of the components, including navigation links and the display of data. They leveraged testing libraries such as Enzyme and Jest with React components to validate the application's behavior.
learn-co-curriculum/react-hooks-redux-forms-lab
Dec 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
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