Ian Robinson
Senior Software Developer at Wealthsimple
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Robinson is a Senior Software Developer with 12 years of experience building scalable, performance-focused systems across fintech, commerce, and SaaS. He has a track record of modernizing legacy stacks—leading frontend rewrites, introducing event-driven architectures that cut cloud costs dramatically, and revamping financial reporting to support growth. As a hands-on technical leader he has launched platform teams, mentored engineers on architecture and type systems, and delivered pragmatic tooling like a dependency injection framework to improve developer velocity. His work spans backend, frontend, IoT, and cloud data pipelines, with measurable wins such as up to 10x performance improvements and 20x cost reductions. Based in Old Toronto, he currently contributes to Wealthsimple after recent senior roles at Nautical Commerce and ResQ. Colleagues would describe him as a practical systems thinker who pairs deep technical craft with product-minded solutions.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Waterloo
Github Skills (14)
minecraft10
toggl10
thunderbird10
timer10
script10
azerothcore10
user-interface10
asl10
perl10
react10
game-development9
removal9
web-components7
splitting3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
drtchops/LiveSplit
Feb 2015 - Mar 2019
A sleek, highly-customizable timer for speedrunners.
Contributions:27 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 1 month
reacthighly-customizablecustomizabletimersleek
drtchops/asl
Jun 2015 - Sep 2022
LiveSplit ASL scripts
Contributions:10 reviews, 123 commits, 28 PRs in 7 years 4 months
livesplit-asllivesplitscriptazerothcoreperl5
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