Ian Livingstone
CEO & Co-Founder at Keycard
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolIan Livingstone is a seasoned engineer-entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building scalable infrastructure, developer tooling, and trusted systems—now CEO & Co-Founder of Keycard, focused on autonomous agent access and identity. He has a track record of founding and scaling technical teams and products (Torus, Manifold, Cape Privacy), integrating real-time systems at Salesforce, and contributing to open-source quality in notable projects like salesforce/tough-cookie. Based in San Francisco, he invests in and advises over 50 startups and venture funds, blending hands-on engineering with strategic product and go-to-market judgment. A board member of Halihax and co-host of The Infra Pod, he actively cultivates regional tech ecosystems while staying pragmatic about developer experience and security. Less obvious: he pairs deep systems design instincts with a tester’s attention to detail, often contributing directly to QA and automation to ensure reliability at scale.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Dalhousie University
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Github Skills (12)
javascript10
cookie10
testing10
nodejs9
nsstring6
json6
git6
linux6
codeigniter6
gitpython6
iphone6
mysql6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
salesforce/tough-cookie
Dec 2011 - Feb 2012
RFC6265 Cookies and CookieJar for Node.js
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributed to testing and quality assurance within the project. Their work involved modifying existing test files, updating assertions to reflect changes in dependencies, and implementing new tests to cover edge cases. The commits focused on ensuring the correct behavior of the cookie management functionalities within the library. The changes also reflect modifications to the testing infrastructure to address issues related to trailing semi-colons and constructor options, improving overall code reliability.
node-jsjavascriptnodejscookiejarcookies
manifoldco/homebrew-brew
Nov 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 16 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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