Ian Rowan
Senior Software Engineer at Circle
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Rowan is a senior software engineer and founder with eight years of cross-disciplinary experience building blockchain protocols, AI-driven products, and embedded health devices. He has led end-to-end smart contract and DApp development for EVM and Solana, while also inventing one of the world’s smallest EEG wearables and shipping its app/cloud AI stack. Comfortable from low-level firmware and CAD through production Swift apps to distributed ML systems and cloud architecture, he blends research (quantum+ML) with practical product delivery. Ian has founded and scaled startups, published widely as a machine learning writer, and repeatedly translated novel algorithms into deployable systems. He brings a rare combination of hands-on hardware design, full-stack blockchain engineering, and ethical AI practice, with a knack for turning academic research into market-ready features. Based in Chicago, he’s known for curiosity-driven work—highlighted by a TEDx talk—and a track record of shipping auditable, multi-chain financial and health products.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Applied Engineering Science, Bachelors Applied Engineering Science at Michigan State University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (40)
text-generation10
ganache10
rabbitmq10
ethereum10
blockchain10
react9
management9
nlp8
transformer-architecture8
firefox8
plug8
chrome8
chrome-extension8
openai8
browser-extension7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ianrowan/DeepWave
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
ianrowan/MindbuilderArtIst
Jun 2018 - Feb 2019
Welcome to AI artist. This repo includes the code necessary to turn your computer into the next Picasso.
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 8 months
artistpythonpicassodeep-learningcomputer-vision
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