Ian Norris
Staff Software Engineer at Skylight
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Norris is a Staff Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 12 years of experience building and scaling web applications, primarily in Ruby and JavaScript. He combines deep hands-on refactoring and architecture skills with people leadership—having grown engineering teams, run hiring, and mentored developers into senior roles. His recent work spans high-stakes public-sector modernization at the U.S. Digital Service and CMS (integrating Medicare formats) as well as staff engineering roles at Datavant and Skylight. Ian speaks about refactoring and developer growth (RailsConf 2022) and is passionate about social justice, bringing that community-focused perspective to product and team decisions. He’s comfortable owning tough technical choices while keeping codebases clean and teams productive.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (78)
mapping-tools10
ruby10
jquery10
sidekiq10
rails10
docker10
mapbox-gl-js10
open-source10
casa10
pundit10
locate10
react10
jruby9
ruby-on-rails9
geoserver9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
FeminismIsAwesome/catscatscats
Oct 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:103 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
FeminismIsAwesome/dcaf_case_management
Feb 2017 - Dec 2022
Rails-based case management system for the DC Abortion Fund
Contributions:42 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 10 months
management-systemfundrailsrubyabortion
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