Ian Hughes
Vice President Of Engineering at Pearl
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolIan Hughes is a seasoned engineering leader with over 20 years of software experience and a 14-year track record in senior management roles, currently serving as Vice President of Engineering. He excels at translating ambiguous business needs into production software, building and mentoring large global teams, and staying hands-on with architecture, code reviews, and operational realities. Ian has driven machine learning initiatives, conversational commerce tooling, and web-scale A/B testing at JustAnswer while shipping responsive and scalable .NET-based products across his career. He blends CEO-level product sensibility from running a consultancy with deep technical chops—RDBMS, caching, CI/CD, and mobile/native efforts—so his primary job is making developers successful. Based in San Francisco, he’s particularly focused on bringing professional services online, combining practical delivery experience with a passion for delighting end users.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, Sacramento
Spanish
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Github Skills (9)
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Github contributions (2)
IanPatrickHughes/ShadowGateMVC
Dec 2011 - Jan 2012
Contributions:4 commits in 1 month
IanPatrickHughes/JAdeDocGen
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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