Ian Ling
Director, Software Development at Exiger
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Ling is a director-level software engineering leader with 12 years of hands-on experience building scalable, secure cloud-native systems and developer tooling. Based in Beaverton, Oregon, he has led back-end architecture, GraphQL migrations, and OpenTelemetry instrumentation that dramatically improved observability and performance across microservices. Ian has deep full-stack expertise from embedded Linux and firmware to SaaS platforms, having optimized services for 2x–100x performance gains and cut CI costs by ~75% through workflow and infrastructure improvements. He combines security stewardship—credited with multiple CVE discoveries earlier in his career—with pragmatic DevOps and CI/CD ownership across AWS and multi-cloud environments. An active open-source contributor, he has improved cross-platform GUI tooling for the Go ecosystem by integrating and refining Dear ImGui bindings. Ian pairs technical depth with operational rigor, often serving as the go-to troubleshooter for complex, cross-service issues.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Aloha High School
Japanese, English
Github Skills (5)
golang10
go10
windows-gui10
ui-design10
cross-platform9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
AllenDang/giu
Jan 2021 - Apr 2021
Cross platform rapid GUI framework for golang based on Dear ImGui.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily focused on enhancing the giu framework by integrating with the underlying Dear ImGui library. Their contributions included replacing existing dependencies and module names with a forked version, demonstrating a deep understanding of the framework's dependencies. They also made various UI improvements and bug fixes across multiple examples within the giu framework, implementing features like keyboard modifiers, and popup modal enhancements.
golanggui-frameworkguigorapid
ion-channel/graphql-schema
May 2022 - Sep 2023
Contributions:15 PRs, 52 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 4 months
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