Ian Siaca
Senior Software Engineer at Posit PBC
Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolIan Siaca is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years’ experience building and operating cloud-native and on‑premise data platforms, currently shaping Kubernetes and operator work at Posit. He blends a Master’s in Data Science with hands-on FinOps and infrastructure expertise—having led teams to optimize GPU/Infiniband clusters, deliver autoscaling GitHub Actions runners adopted by Apache projects, and cut cloud spend through committed-use and rightsizing strategies. Ian has deployed RStudio enterprise for 150+ customers, authored R packages and automation tooling, and co-created the multilingual Carpentries glosario project that spans front- and back-end work. Comfortable bridging product, operations, and finance, he brings a pragmatic focus on observability, cost transparency, and reproducible environments.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Data Science Data Science, Master of Data Science Data Science at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor’s Degree Integrative Biology, Bachelor’s Degree Integrative Biology at University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Haitian Creole
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Github Skills (11)
liquid10
jekyll10
translate9
python9
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translators9
translater9
translator9
css8
data-science8
jinjava4
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
carpentries/glosario
Jun 2020 - Mar 2022
A multilingual glossary for computing and data science terms.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 93 commits, 42 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Ian contributed to both the front-end and back-end aspects of the project. They added Python code, likely for the backend, and removed a submodule, indicating code restructuring or dependency management. They also modified the `_includes/glossary.html` file, suggesting involvement in the display and organization of glossary terms, which impacts the user interface. Furthermore, they made changes to CSS files and layouts, pointing to UI/UX adjustments.
nlptranslationsglosariosciencedata-science
ian-flores/Deep-Learning-Species-Identification
Feb 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:17 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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