Summary
Ian Pierce is a Senior Software Engineer in Salt Lake City with nine years of experience building customer-facing web applications and backend services, and a pragmatic focus on outcomes over output. He has led modernization work at Navitaire—turning legacy airline systems into React micro frontends, integrating peripheral device management, and using agentic AI to shore up test coverage—while also shipping retail and recommendation features that bridge APIs and UX. As founder of Grande Menus he designed a production digital menu platform used by dozens of restaurants, owning the full stack from AWS auth and hosting to a Supabase backend and direct customer feedback loops. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise contexts, Ian blends hands-on coding, product intuition, and hiring/onboarding experience as he progresses toward product management. An uncommon detail: he pairs technical leadership with operational QA roots (early field engineering and materials testing), giving him a practical, systems-minded approach to reliability.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Southern Utah University
English, Spanish