Ian Shafer is a staff software engineer in Seattle with 8 years of experience building products that scale across startups and tech giants like Google and Amazon. A two-time founder and former sole-engineer CTO who raised $1.8M and exited a recruiting startup, he excels at owning end-to-end engineering for new products—designing fast-changing architectures, async workflows, and responsive web and API systems. At Google he moved from YouTube engineering into a staff role, bringing product-first pragmatism and deep hands-on coding discipline. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, and operational concerns, he treats software construction as an art and enjoys turning ambiguous product needs into reliable, shipping systems.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at University of Washington
Contributions:72 PRs, 163 pushes, 21 branches in 3 months
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