Ian Mackinnon
Co-Founder at Stingray Security
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolIan MacKinnon is a seasoned software leader and serial founder with 13 years of experience building and scaling web and mobile platforms from prototype to acquisition. As Co-Founder and former CTO of Later.com he led engineering through hypergrowth to 200+ employees and $40M+ ARR, owning everything from Rails backends and EmberJS frontends to iOS apps and ML initiatives. He now co-founded Stingray Security, applying his deep technical grounding in Swift, Rails, Node.js and Keras to the cybersecurity space. Ian’s background blends rigorous academic training (MMath and BMath from Waterloo, MS from Stanford) with hands-on product shipping and technical due diligence during M&A. He’s comfortable moving between low-level implementation and org-level strategy, having built initial products solo at Placeling and later scaled teams and platforms at Later. Based in Vancouver, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a curiosity for ML-driven analytics and practical security solutions.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MS Management Science & Engineering, MS Management Science & Engineering at Stanford UniversityMMath Computer Science Information Retrieval, MMath Computer Science Information Retrieval at University of Waterloo
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (95)
unify10
candidate9
percentage9
api8
sidekiq8
api-client8
dall-e8
aws-lambda8
cropperjs7
ruby7
serverless7
lambda-functions7
podfile7
whisper7
language-agnostic7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Latermedia/ios-linkinbio
Apr 2016 - Aug 2020
Candidate Test Repo
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 4 years 4 months
candidatetestingtest-repo
lighthouse-labs/GastownPictures
Jun 2015 - Sep 2020
W5D4 Testing example (Look at pull requests for testing stuff)
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 5 years 3 months
testinglookpull-requests
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