Ian Sikes
Software Engineer at Gusto
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolIan Sikes is an adaptable full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance web and mobile applications, currently contributing at Gusto in New York. He has deep expertise in React Native, GraphQL, and CI tooling, having cut mobile build times by 82% and led cross-functional workshops as a staff engineer at Sofía. Ian has shipped production video and streaming experiences, real-time messaging, and analytics dashboards across startups and agencies, pairing native mobile components with robust TypeScript/Node backends. He regularly mentors teams and brings measurable performance and developer-experience improvements to projects. Outside work he contributes to open source and—despite a cheeky Github bio—focuses his curiosity on practical engineering solutions rather than mischief.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Palisades Charter High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Santa Monica College
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Github Skills (151)
vim10
game-development10
godot10
game-engine10
editor10
kakoune10
rust10
scaffold10
text-editor10
git-workflow10
open-source10
cli9
tuya9
command-line-interface9
transmission9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ianjsikes/markdown-links
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Command that displays a graph of local links between markdown files
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 6 months
markdownlinksgraphdisplays
SMCProgrammingClub/bookstore
Apr 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:49 commits, 7 PRs, 62 pushes in 3 months
reactsalemastertextbooksadvertising
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