Ian Phipps
Software Engineer at Shopify
Miami, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolIan Phipps is a software engineer based in Miami with 13 years building user-focused web and desktop applications across startups and agencies, currently shipping features at Shopify. He specializes in front-end excellence with HTML, CSS and JavaScript/TypeScript while pairing that with pragmatic back-end and infrastructure skills to deliver performant, accessible, and maintainable products. His work at Geneva scaled DAUs 15x through SEO, landing page automation and rich real-time features like A/V conferencing and presence, showing an ability to tie engineering to growth. He’s comfortable wearing many hats—from lead engineer and product manager to hands-on implementer for clients like Ralph Lauren and Black Knight—and mentors teams to deliver predictable velocity. Opinionated yet open-minded, he prioritizes elegant, testable code and design systems that make interfaces both beautiful and usable. Trained in philosophy, he brings a thoughtful, user-centered perspective to tradeoffs and product decisions.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy at Boston CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Bishop Hendricken High School
Portuguese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
545reputation
32kreached
9answers
7questions
Github Skills (32)
makefile7
html6
internet-explorer6
react6
sass6
drupal6
css6
github6
vscode-extension6
git6
mailchimp6
component-library5
typescript5
shopify5
design-tokens5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
iphipps/dotfiles
Apr 2016 - Jun 2022
A place to put my dotfiles
Contributions:28 commits, 18 PRs, 83 pushes in 6 years 2 months
dotfilesplacemakefilezsh
iphipps/ianmphipps
Apr 2015 - Jan 2024
My portfolio site and some minor projects
Contributions:18 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 10 months
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