Ian López
Sr. Software Engineer at The Grid
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolIan López is a senior software engineer based in Madrid with nine years of professional experience and six focused on Elixir backend development. He builds scalable REST and GraphQL APIs, has practical React and React Native experience, and is an enthusiast and advocate for Phoenix LiveView. Ian has led teams and projects—serving as Tech Lead and Staff Engineer at BlockFi and Pulley—and now architects trading systems for LLM inference at The Grid. He contributes to the Gleam compiler, improving core error handling and test coverage, reflecting a careful, language-aware approach to backend engineering. With a background that spans full-stack roles and even editorial work, he brings clear communication and a knack for polish to complex distributed systems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS in Audio Engineering, BS in Audio Engineering at Tecnológico de Monterrey
Spanish, English
Github Skills (11)
compiler10
programming-language10
compiler-compiler10
gleam10
testing9
error-handling9
static-typing8
strongly-typed8
formatting8
text-formatting8
erlang4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gleam-lang/gleam
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
⭐️ A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 19 commits, 7 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ian's contributions primarily focus on improving the Gleam compiler's core functionality. They fixed a typo in an error message and added a zero to float formatting. Furthermore, the user implemented tests for specific parse errors, added and refined error messages within the compiler. They also ran the formatter across several files, ensuring code style consistency.
gleamscalableerlangstatically-typedtype-safe
Ian-GL/website
Sep 2020 - Mar 2024
🏡 Gleam's website and guide
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
gleam
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