Ian Simpson
Staff Software Engineer at Undisclosed
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolIan Simpson is a Staff Software Engineer in Portland, Oregon with 14 years of experience designing and shipping scalable, secure, high-performance enterprise systems. He has led architecture and DevOps efforts at companies from Overstock to PeopleKeep, driving service-oriented designs, CI/CD migrations, Docker/ECS deployments, and front-end conversions to modern Angular versions. Ian specializes in Java-based backend services (Jersey/JAX-RS, Dropwizard, JDBI), PostgreSQL/Oracle data work, and pragmatic automation of developer tooling and cloud infrastructure. He’s comfortable balancing functional and non-functional requirements, mentoring engineers, and building teams to operationalize API and data-pipeline solutions. A longtime proponent of testing and performance-driven metrics, he also maintains a public portfolio of work at theotherian.com that highlights his practical craftsmanship.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Utah State University
Github Skills (97)
interoperability10
testing10
recovery10
javacard10
sign-in-with-apple10
user-management10
quilt10
theming9
javascript9
passkey9
ledger9
jwt9
user-profile9
lambda9
api9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
xpring-eng/payid-lambda
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
AWS Lambda setup for a PayID server
Contributions:4 releases, 3 reviews, 36 commits in 2 months
serverlessaws-lambdapayidawslambda
theotherian/thread-local-dns
Apr 2012 - May 2012
Contributions:33 commits in 21 days
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