Ian Patel
Principal Engineer at Icehouse Ventures
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolIan Patel is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building web and product engineering solutions across startups, agencies, and venture-backed companies in New Zealand. Currently at Icehouse Ventures, he focuses on creating technology that supports early-stage founders and scales product delivery for a fast-moving VC portfolio. His background spans full-stack development, e-commerce platforms, payments integrations and age-friendly consumer tech, reflecting an ability to move between user-facing design and robust back-end systems. As founder of a design inspiration platform, he combines a strong visual sensibility—summed up by his GitHub motto “Every pixel has its own contribution”—with pragmatic engineering. Ian brings a track record of mentoring teams, shipping production services, and improving performance and integrations across diverse stacks. Based in Auckland, he pairs entrepreneurial curiosity with practical delivery to solve domain-specific problems for the venture ecosystem.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Advanced Software Development Information Technology, Diploma in Advanced Software Development Information Technology at Whitireia Community PolytechnicDiploma in Information Technology Multimedia, Diploma in Information Technology Multimedia at Tasman International Academies - TIABachelors of Computer Application Information Technology, Bachelors of Computer Application Information Technology at Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat
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Github Skills (128)
logos10
svg10
branding10
iconic10
javascript10
laravel-passport10
fonts10
progressive10
vue10
font-awesome10
svg-font10
woff10
google-fonts10
css10
frontend10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ian-patel/Tailwind-AlpineJS-Laravel-Livewire
May 2020 - Mar 2021
Tailwind CSS, Alpine JS, Laravel, Livewire, Github Actions
Contributions:104 commits, 4 PRs, 91 pushes in 9 months
tailwindcsslivewiretailwindcssphp
ian-patel/www.ian-patel.com
Jun 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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