Summary
Ian Rahman is a senior software engineer with a decade of experience specializing in iOS and the broader Apple ecosystem, having shipped high-impact features at Google and Dropbox and led teams to faster, more reliable releases. He blends hands-on engineering—rewriting performance-sensitive components in Swift, modernizing architectures, and driving platform reliability—with management training (M.S. in Commerce) that informs pragmatic product and team decisions. At Dropbox he drove measurable user and performance wins (orders-of-magnitude speedups, reduced failures, and improved search and batch operation metrics) and authored org-wide AI/ML development guidelines. Ian is equally comfortable teaching and creating: he’s built curriculum as an iOS instructor, co-founded a biotech incubator, and runs a small creative services business from earlier in his career. Currently stepping back from full-time work to focus on family life, motorcycling, and sourdough, he remains open to opportunities that value empowered teams and thoughtful product design. Fun signal: ask him about your favorite ice cream and you’ll get bonus points.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Recorded Music, Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Recorded Music at New York University
Master of Science (M.S.), Commerce, Master of Science (M.S.), Commerce at University of Virginia