Ian Malott
Software Architect at Grubhub
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolIan Malott is a software architect based in Cambridge, MA with 11 years of experience building and operationalizing production systems across payments and platform companies. Currently at Grubhub, he brings deep expertise in designing resilient, scalable architectures informed by hands-on engineering roles at LevelUp, Inflection, and Convox. His contributions to Convox’s private PaaS—improving CI/CD, automating infrastructure, and tightening auth and CLI workflows—reflect a practical focus on developer experience and operational reliability. Ian combines leadership experience from a lead-engineer role with a pragmatic DevOps mindset, able to move between high-level architecture and low-level automation. He’s comfortable in high-throughput, latency-sensitive domains like food tech and payments and often surfaces subtle operational fixes that prevent quota issues and improve deployment hygiene. Trained at Harvard College, he pairs rigorous problem-solving with a bias toward shipping robust, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Harvard College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
infrastructure-as-code10
aws-cloudformation10
docker10
aws10
dockers10
cicd10
bash9
go9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
convox/rack
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
Private PaaS built on native AWS services for maximum privacy and minimum upkeep
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:35 commits, 24 PRs, 69 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributed to improving the CI/CD pipeline and infrastructure automation. They focused on cleaning up server certificates within the CI environment, preventing quota limits, and integrating `make templates` command after a `go-bindata` upgrade. Furthermore, the user addressed issues with authentication error messages and refined the CLI help text for services. Their work demonstrates a focus on streamlining Convox's deployment and operational processes.
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ianmalott/dotfiles
Feb 2015 - Apr 2024
Contributions:87 pushes, 13 branches in 9 years 3 months
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