Ian Lintner
Software Engineering Consultant at Lintner Consulting LLC
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolIan Lintner is a seasoned software engineering consultant and former team lead with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable, production-grade backend systems, especially in Scala and microservices. He has led AI-driven customer communication efforts at Carvana and built global identity and access management services for SmartThings and Samsung’s IoT ecosystem, pairing strong observability and cloud infrastructure skills (Datadog, Sumo Logic, Terraform, AWS). As an active open-source contributor, he improved ZIO metrics in the widely used Tapir framework—adding interceptors and request-level metrics—demonstrating deep expertise in functional Scala and service observability. Ian also brings entrepreneurial experience running an LLC and co-owning a small farm business, reflecting a practical, product-minded approach and an ability to operate across technical, operational, and business domains. Based in Minneapolis, he combines systems-level thinking with a penchant for building things right now with AI.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Red Wing High SchoolTwin Bluff Middle SchoolB.A. Biology Computer Science, B.A. Biology Computer Science at Drake UniversityComputer Technology & Nursing, Computer Technology & Nursing at Southeast Technical Red Wing, MN
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
data-collection10
zio10
scala10
collections10
functional-programming10
metric10
testing9
akka9
documentation8
http8
akka-http8
openapi7
version-control6
csv6
nhibernate6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
softwaremill/tapir
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Rapid development of self-documenting APIs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ian primarily focused on implementing and improving ZIO metrics within the `tapir` framework. They introduced a ZIO Metrics Interceptor, added features for collecting requests total, active requests, and request duration metrics. The user also enhanced documentation, formatting, and incorporated SBT aggregates, and provided examples of the metrics collection. This work demonstrates a strong understanding of the ZIO library and metric collection within a web service context.
functional-programmingendpointsobservabilityhttp4ssttp
TheBrainCoop/CDDA-Game-Launcher
Apr 2019 - Sep 2022
A Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead launcher with additional features
Contributions:4 PRs, 1 push in 3 years 5 months
minecraftcataclysmlauncheradditionaldark
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