Ian Scherer
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolIan Scherer is a Director of Platform Engineering with 10+ years building and modernizing distributed, cloud-native systems across fintech, proptech, and messaging platforms. He excels at driving measurable reliability and performance improvements—cutting defects nearly in half and slashing MTTR by over 90% through observability, automation, and developer-focused practices. Ian has led platform consolidation and integration work during acquisitions, launched developer-led security programs that remediated hundreds of vulnerabilities quickly, and applied practical AI/ML to enhance customer experience and developer productivity. Based in the DC-Baltimore area, he combines a designer’s attention to detail with data-driven leadership, prioritizing trust, transparency, and empowerment to align teams around business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Associate Digital Art, Associate Digital Art at Art Institute of York, Pennsylvania
Stackoverflow
143reputation
249reached
0answers
1question
Github Skills (27)
sparkpost10
segment8
tiddlywiki7
api7
react7
mercurial7
syntax6
haskell6
literals6
nodejs6
kinesis-stream6
gatsby6
thin6
python6
typescript5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ischer/powerline-hgstatus
Oct 2016 - Nov 2019
A Powerline segment for showing the status of a Mercurial working copy
Contributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 1 month
tiddlywikimercurialpowerlinestatustiddlywiki5
SparkPost/sparkpost-api-documentation
Feb 2016 - Jul 2018
DEPRECATED - API reference now lives in the developers.sparkpost.com repo
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches, 2 comments in 2 years 5 months
apipythonsparkpostdeprecated-apiapi-reference
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.