Ian Quick
Owner Entertainer Magician Balloon Twister at The Magic of Ian Quick
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Quick is an experienced entertainer and entrepreneur based in Ottawa who has spent 13+ years building family-focused performance businesses, specializing in corporate magic, literacy-focused school shows, and master-level balloon twisting. He runs multiple ventures—including BirthdayPartyMagic.ca and Powerful Princess Parties—creating bespoke shows that both delight audiences and empower children to pursue their dreams. With a background in philosophy, criminology, and law from the University of Ottawa, he brings a thoughtful, persuasive presence to performances and client engagements. Ian also contributes to technical open-source projects related to observability and DevOps—working on exporters and Kubernetes tooling—illustrating an uncommon blend of stagecraft and back-end engineering. Known for tailoring experiences to organizational needs and bilingual service in Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec, he combines creativity, operational rigor, and community impact in his work.
13 years of coding experience
BAH, Philosophy, BAH, Philosophy at University of Ottawa
French
Github Skills (15)
opentelemetry10
kubernetes10
go10
stackdriver10
cicd10
zipkin10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
testing10
deployer9
docker8
configuration-management8
dockers8
ruby7
grpc7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/krane
Apr 2017 - Jul 2017
A command-line tool that helps you ship changes to a Kubernetes namespace and understand the result
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits, 5 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily focused on improving the deployment process and testing within the Kubernetes environment. Their contributions include adding functionality for extra bindings, which involves templating configuration files, and creating tests to validate the correct rendering of these bindings. They made changes to the deployment timeout values and adjusted file matching for templates. Additionally, they bump versions of the project and maintain the project's dependencies.
golangcommand-line-toolshipnamespacedeploy-tool
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Feb 2020 - Oct 2020
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 commits, 4 PRs, 11 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributed to the OpenTelemetry Collector's exporters, specifically focusing on the Zipkin and Stackdriver exporters. Their work involved adding features such as format options (JSON/Proto) to the Zipkin exporter and updating the Stackdriver exporter to use the new batch API, alongside implementing an end-to-end test. The user also addressed issues related to metrics reporting and improved the system's handling of dropped spans.
contribopentelemetry-collectortracingtempoobservability
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