Summary
Ian Mccall is a Sr. Full-Stack Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building resilient web applications and developer tooling, currently based in Chicago and working at Firstup. He brings deep JavaScript expertise across browser and Node.js environments, alongside professional experience in Perl and hands-on projects in Ruby, Python, Java, and C++. Ian has driven fraud-detection features, React front-ends, and cloud-backed services at ShopRunner, and previously optimized performance, ad revenue, and developer workflows at Tribune Publishing. He combines individual contributor strengths with product-minded engineering leadership from his time managing development at Brandify, where he also improved deployment and ops processes. An active npm package author (notably svn-interface and simple-spinner), Ian blends practical open-source contributions with production-grade system design. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambiguous requirements into pragmatic, maintainable solutions that ship.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Computers, Information Security, Web Development, B.S, Computers, Information Security, Web Development at Illinois Institute of Technology
Chinese