Ian Selby
Senior Software Engineer at Airbnb
California, United States
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Top SchoolIan Selby is a Senior Software Engineer and engineering manager based in California with 17 years of experience building and scaling full-stack web platforms. He has led cross-functional teams and architected complex, cloud-native systems—from identity and sync services to digital commerce and DRM-enabled content platforms—while staying hands-on in Ruby/Rails, JavaScript, and AWS. Ian’s background spans startup grit and enterprise delivery, including leadership roles at Airbnb, Barnes & Noble/Yuzu, and head-of-platform responsibilities that delivered major national products on aggressive timelines. He contributes to open-source image tooling (notably PHPThumb) and values clean, well-factored, testable code that’s as polished as the UI it supports. Colleagues rely on him for technical mentorship and pragmatic architecture decisions because he won’t ask a team to do anything he wouldn’t do himself.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Iowa State University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
image-resizing10
croppie10
gd10
image-cropper10
image-resizer10
php10
crop-image10
image-manipulation10
cropper10
mysql9
caching9
enviroment9
ruby9
memcached9
ruby-on-rails9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
masterexploder/PHPThumb
Jan 2009 - Apr 2012
PHP Thumbnail & Image Manipulation Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ian contributed to the core functionality of the `phpthumb` library, focusing on the underlying image manipulation logic. Their commits involved defining classes, methods, and utility functions to handle image resizing, cropping, and rotation. They also added support for different image formats (GIF, JPG, PNG) and implemented features to preserve alpha transparency and manage image data streams.
manipulationmanipulation-libraryimagethumbnailimage-manipulation
masterexploder/Documentr
Feb 2010 - Nov 2010
Contributions:30 commits in 8 months
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