Ian Russell
Chief Executive Officer at Farmbrite
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolIan Russell is a seasoned SaaS founder and executive with over two decades of experience designing, architecting, and shipping full‑stack web and mobile applications. As CEO and founder of Farmbrite and former VP/Director roles at SurveyGizmo and Alchemer, he blends hands‑on development (C#, PHP, Ruby on Rails, VueJS) with strategic product and architecture leadership across AWS cloud platforms. He builds high‑performance, lean engineering teams and champions user‑centric design, rapid development practices, and scalable SaaS architectures. A published author and .NET distributed systems specialist with expertise in DDD and F#, Ian pairs deep technical chops with product-driven decision making. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he has a track record of turning complex domain needs—like farm management—into elegant, usable products. His background in visual arts (BFA Video Painting) informs a strong UX sensibility that differentiates his product work.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BFA Video Painting, BFA Video Painting at Syracuse University
Stackoverflow
11reputation
9kreached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (21)
portal9
django8
api8
markdown8
docker7
rest-api7
bitmask6
sql6
python6
bit-manipulation6
web-application5
testing4
user-management4
dotnet3
xunit2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ijrussell/essential-fsharp
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Markdown source of Essential F# ebook
Contributions:3 reviews, 12 commits, 7 PRs in 5 months
markdown
ijrussell/AdventOfCode2022
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:48 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.