Ian Lancaster is a Principal Software Engineer in Denver with nine years of experience building cloud-native, high-performance web applications as a Typescript and React specialist. He has progressed from hands-on full-stack roles to engineering management and staff-level positions, most recently leading platform and frontend architecture at BuildOps before joining MGT Insurance. Ian blends product-minded engineering with a background in business and marketing, enabling him to translate customer needs into scalable technical solutions. He’s comfortable across the stack—frontend performance, scalable APIs, and cloud deployments—and known for shipping pragmatic systems that balance developer ergonomics with operational reliability. An instructor-turned-engineer who trained at Turing School, he brings a teaching mindset to mentoring teams and improving engineering processes.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Business Administration and Marketing, Bachelor of Science (BS) Business Administration and Marketing at University of Colorado Denver
Front End Engineering Javascript React Redux Ember Node Express React Native Electron Sketch Invision, Front End Engineering Javascript React Redux Ember Node Express React Native Electron Sketch Invision at Turing School of Software & Design
Contributions:58 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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Ian Lancaster - Principal Software Engineer at MGT Insurance