Ian Reid
Chief Technology Officer at Neon - Money Talks
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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SeniorIan Reid is a seasoned technology executive and CTO based in Vancouver with over two decades of web and systems engineering experience, currently leading Neon - Money Talks. He progressed from C++ and enterprise languages to a decade in core web stacks and now architects Node/React, TypeScript, Python, and Go systems on AWS and GCP. Ian has run real-time dataflows handling billions of network requests per day and recently focuses on practical, production-scale AI: cost modeling, parallelization, multi-step agentic workflows, semantic search and conversational interfaces. He combines hands-on engineering with product leadership from roles as CTO, VP of Product & Engineering, and startup founder, consistently shipping scalable features and operational efficiencies. A strong advocate for education, collaboration and accountability, he builds teams that deliver transformative results under pressure. Outside the obvious tech stack breadth, Ian’s work emphasizes making ML and LLMs operationally pragmatic—prioritizing cost, latency and integration tradeoffs that turn prototypes into reliable product features.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (23)
architecture9
thin9
documentation8
routes8
javascript8
oop8
traits8
react6
nodejs6
child-process6
compiler5
router5
primitive5
lodash4
classes4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
anyuzer/node-service-starter
Jan 2017 - Mar 2022
A thin ES6 OOP service only (non react) starter for Node
Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 34 pushes in 5 years 3 months
oop-servicereactjavascriptreact-starteres6
anyuzer/arc-hash
Nov 2017 - May 2024
Contributions:9 pushes in 6 years 7 months
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