Ian Howson
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolIan Howson is a Staff Software Engineer in Sunnyvale with 15 years of experience building embedded systems, IoT firmware, and secure platform infrastructure for companies from startups to Google and NVIDIA. He blends deep hardware-level expertise—comfortable soldering and designing/debugging boards—with data science and ML skills that let him squeeze large models into tiny devices. His background spans implantable medical devices (IEC 62304/60601), high-performance acceleration (FPGAs, CUDA, NPUs), and practical IoT security lessons from early award-winning products. Ian has led teams, founded a healthtech startup, and shipped production systems while bringing strong DevOps and test automation practices learned at Cochlear to every role. Pragmatic and curious, he pairs cryptography and penetration-testing experience with a knack for parallelizing code and optimizing real-world systems for speed and safety.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyMaster of Applied Statistics, GPA 3.875, Master of Applied Statistics, GPA 3.875 at Macquarie University
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (54)
geomorphology10
modeling-tool9
marine9
r-package9
teensy9
dynamics9
meta-analysis9
alfred-workflow9
modeling8
mamba8
landscape8
agent-based-modeling8
power-systems8
sandbox8
r8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ihowson/EggTimer2
Apr 2017 - Aug 2019
A fork of CarlosNZ's EggTimer 2 Alfred Workflow. Updated to work with Alfred 3.
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 4 months
eggtimeralfredalfred-3updatedalfred-workflow
ihowson/dotfiles
Sep 2016 - Oct 2023
Contributions:54 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 1 month
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