Ian Serlin
CTO & Co-Founder at Playlab AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Serlin is a seasoned engineer and entrepreneur who has spent over a decade building product-led startups and developer-facing platforms, currently serving as CTO and co-founder of Playlab.ai, a nonprofit enabling educators to create and share AI-driven edtech tools. He previously led Product & Engineering at Google AI-backed Intellipse through acquisition and founded a software agency that helped multiple startups scale from zero to revenue. Comfortable across the stack, Ian’s career ranges from real-time video systems and embedded defense prototypes to consumer web architecture and AI-driven conversational marketing. He combines hands-on technical leadership with product strategy, customer success, and fundraising experience, having operated in bootstrapped, VC-backed and nonprofit contexts. Based in San Francisco with MS/BS degrees from USC and additional study in Mandarin, he brings a global, research-minded approach to ethical AI in education. A pragmatic builder, he often focuses on open, reusable infrastructure—making it easier for nontechnical educators to participate in the AI era.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaCertificate Mandarin Language & Culture, Certificate Mandarin Language & Culture at Peking UniversityAdvanced Product Management, Advanced Product Management at Product Faculty
Chinese
Github Skills (112)
azure-functions10
serverless10
bootstrap-theme10
serverless-applications10
lambda10
aws-lambda10
serverless-framework10
kubeless10
nodejs10
materialize10
mongodb10
npm10
aws-dynamodb10
aws10
faas9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
usefulio/serverless-kubeless-offline
Jun 2018 - Aug 2021
Simulates Kubeless NodeJS runtimes to run call your functions offline using the Serverless Framework.
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 3 years 3 months
runtimesserverlesskubelesskubernetesnodejs
usefulio/meteor-balanced-payments
May 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:13 commits in 1 year
js-clientpaymentsmeteornodejsbalanced
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