Ian Mckay
Senior UI Engineer at Netflix
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolIan Mckay is a Senior UI Engineer with 13 years of experience building production-grade single-page applications and complex front-end systems, currently shaping user experiences at Netflix from San Francisco. He combines deep front-end expertise (HTML5, JavaScript, KnockoutJS, jQuery) with a backend-savvy toolkit (C#, ASP.NET MVC, SQL, WCF) honed across startups and large financial and media firms. Ian has a track record of delivering greenfield projects—everything from iPad-wrapped POS systems integrating hardware peripherals to analytics dashboards and high-performance reporting platforms. Known for quickly mastering unfamiliar technologies, he pairs pragmatic problem-solving with a focus on quality and customer-facing impact. Outside work he contributes to open source and the developer community, bringing an engineer’s curiosity and craftsmanship to both code and collaboration.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
A-Level, A-Level, 4A, A-Level, A-Level, 4A at Thomas Rotherham CollegeMEng, Software Engineering and Computer Systems, 2:1 Honors, MEng, Software Engineering and Computer Systems, 2:1 Honors at University of York
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Github Skills (96)
testing10
javascript10
typescript10
facebook10
knockoutjs10
reloading10
type-check9
jquery9
devtools9
ecmascript9
cli9
shell9
knockout9
autocomplete9
replay9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
madcapnmckay/Knockout-UI
Aug 2012 - Jun 2013
A home for rich UI components based on KnockoutJS
Contributions:11 commits in 10 months
data-bindingknockoutknockoutjsfrontendui-components
madcapnmckay/jest
Oct 2023 - Jan 2025
Delightful JavaScript Testing.
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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