Ian Sparkes
Blockchain DevOps And GitOps at The Hashgraph Group
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolIan Sparkes is a seasoned blockchain and DevOps leader with 11+ years of experience designing, deploying and productionising distributed ledger systems for enterprise clients. Based in Zurich, he has led architecture and delivery for Hyperledger Fabric, Corda, Ethereum and Hedera Hashgraph projects, combining hands‑on smart contract development (EVM/Solidity) with large‑scale platform engineering on Kubernetes/OpenShift. Known for a pragmatic, sceptical approach—constantly asking "why not use a database?"—he focuses on extracting real business value from DLT while cutting through hype. He has steered multi-organisation Fabric rollouts, built CI/CD and operational tooling, and served as a technical focal point and scrum master across banking and telco sectors. Comfortable both leading teams and getting his hands dirty in Node.js, Go and Java, he balances strategic platform vision with practical implementation experience. An uncommonly pragmatic blockchain evangelist, he prioritises measurable outcomes and resilient production operations over theoretical novelty.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Nottingham
English, German, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (55)
clock10
rating10
platformio9
spring9
esp82669
virtualbox9
heroku9
buildpack9
arduino9
docker8
esp328
maven8
gitflow8
synchronization8
jenkins-api-plugin8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
isparkes/time-zone-server
Apr 2016 - Dec 2020
Provides current local time and zone information given a TZ input
Contributions:12 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
local-timezone
isparkes/HVPS_SMD
Apr 2019 - Feb 2025
A small, flexible nixie clock tube power supply.
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch, 3 tags in 5 years 11 months
clocknixie-clockpower-supplysupplypower
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