Ian Homer
Staff Engineer at Wise
Reading, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIan Homer is a seasoned Staff Engineer with 17 years of experience building production-grade, high-scale systems and leading platform and reliability efforts across fintech and enterprise SaaS. He combines hands-on engineering—spanning Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS/GCP, GitOps, observability and full‑stack work in React/Python/.NET—with team coaching and platform design to help organisations deliver change safely and quickly. Ian has co-founded and exited a mobile platform startup, led SRE and platform teams, and repeatedly enabled rapid onboarding and one-day live deployments through strong CI/CD and test automation practices. Based in Reading, UK, he blends pragmatic engineering with inclusive team practices—pairing, TDD/BDD and living documentation—to keep delivery sustainable and auditable. Known simply on GitHub as a Maker of Things, he brings entrepreneurial curiosity and a track record of translating complex requirements into reliable operational foundations.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Meteorology, Meteorology at University of ReadingRoyal Grammar SchoolBSc Mathematics, BSc Mathematics at University of Exeter
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (150)
javascript-client10
distributed-tracing10
npm-package10
vim10
lua10
nvim10
d3-force10
monitoring10
audio10
api10
music10
text-editor10
sequencer10
file-explorer10
static-site10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ianhomer/try-webpack
Apr 2018 - Sep 2024
Contributions:7 PRs, 25 pushes, 7 branches in 6 years 6 months
webpack-pluginwebpackwebpack3webpack2
heshima-org/heshima-org.github.io
Oct 2019 - Feb 2024
Heshima Web Site
Contributions:20 PRs, 79 pushes, 24 branches in 4 years 4 months
web-site
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