Ian Hook
Principal Engineer at Lime
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Hook is a Principal Engineer based in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building scalable backend systems and leading engineering teams across startups and enterprise products. He progressed from hands-on web and systems work (RPG, Java, PHP) to technical leadership roles including CTO at Relevvant and Principal Engineer at Lime, where he focuses on architecture and delivery for high-throughput services. Ian has deep experience moving analytic workloads to specialized stores (MySQL to SAP HANA/Cassandra) and designing message-queued, cloud-native backends that dramatically improved query and pipeline performance. He’s comfortable across the stack—databases, queuing, devops and integration with third-party platforms—and has repeatedly turned operational pain points into production-grade, continuously-deployed systems. Known for pragmatic migrations and measurable performance wins, he also brings cross-cultural collaboration experience from early roles working with Japanese teams. Trained at UIUC in computer science, he combines startup agility with enterprise-scale engineering discipline.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (35)
react-sketchapp10
sketch-plugin10
render10
react-renderer10
sketch-app10
adobe-xd10
sketch10
react10
parser8
optimizer8
react-components8
python6
peg6
spark6
sql-parser6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ianhook/OCRManga
Oct 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:33 commits, 10 pushes, 2 tags in 6 months
ianhook/cubevision
Jun 2017 - Jan 2024
Contributions:8 PRs, 74 pushes, 8 branches in 6 years 8 months
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