Ian Mcfarland
Chief Technicao Avisor at Owl Therapy
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolIan Mcfarland is a seasoned technology leader and fractional CTO with 20 years of experience building products and teams at the intersection of lean product development, Agile, and regulated healthcare software. He has founded and led multiple startups—most recently Epicenter, an AI-driven development platform—and served as CTO or chief technical advisor for healthcare and SaaS companies including Pear Therapeutics, Fruit Street, and Kard. Ian combines deep hands‑on server and full‑stack engineering (Java, JavaScript, Rails) with expertise in SaMD development under FDA-regulated QMS, making him adept at translating clinical requirements into auditable, production-ready systems. He has a long history of advising, investing, and incubating early-stage ventures, often acting as the technical co-founder to accelerate product-market fit. Based in San Francisco and trained in design thinking at Harvard Business School, he pairs rigorous process discipline with UX-aware product intuition. A rarely-noted thread through his career is a consistent focus on tooling and developer productivity—evident in Epicenter’s emphasis on validated, test-driven code creation.
20 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Johannes Gutenberg University MainzInstructor Technology, Instructor Technology at San Francisco State UniversityDesign Thinking Business and Innovation, Design Thinking Business and Innovation at Harvard Business SchoolNew College of CaliforniaThe Philipp University of Marburg
English, German, French, Japanese, Swedish, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, Dutch, Russian, Hungarian, Czech, Croatian, Icelandic, Russian, Welsh, Serbian, Croatian
Github Skills (68)
gitbook10
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angular8
javascript8
react8
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react-native8
documentation8
vue8
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
covid-md/survey-web
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:49 PRs, 65 pushes, 32 branches in 1 month
imf/saytheirnames
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:7 PRs, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 4 days
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