Ian Starnes
San Clemente, California, United States
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Top SchoolIan Starnes is a serial entrepreneur and engineer with 30+ years translating advanced R&D into production-grade infrastructure for both commercial and government clients, including DARPA, IARPA, and SOCOM. As Co-Founder of Native Mojo and CEO of 311 Labs he designs and operates AI-agent–centric systems that prioritize permission-aware access, token-cost reduction, and disciplined human escalation to make agents safe and scalable. His products—Maestro, MojoWare, and Mojo Verify—demonstrate a pattern of replacing fragmented vendor stacks with unified, high-throughput platforms for unattended commerce, identity verification, and autonomous security operations. Comfortable across embedded systems, mesh networking, computer vision, and ML, he’s equally at home sketching protocols as shipping millions-of-requests cloud and kiosk deployments. A less obvious thread: he repeatedly bridges deep government research practices with product-first commercialization, accelerating how experimental AI techniques become operational infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
International School of ManilaGeorge Mason UniversityGithub contributions (5)
311labs/restit
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:2 commits, 254 pushes, 9 branches in 1 day
311labs/swam
Mar 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:571 pushes, 2 branches, 7 comments in 4 years 1 month
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