Ian Unruh
Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Traffic at LinkedIn
Aurora, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolIan Unruh is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 14 years of experience building and operating high-throughput, resilient infrastructure for large-scale web platforms. Currently focused on traffic and edge systems at LinkedIn, he has operated DNS and request delivery systems that serve billions of queries and millions of HTTP requests per second with four‑nines availability. He brings deep practical experience in CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS from roles at Peloton where he automated SLI/SLO management and modernized e‑commerce microservices. An open-source contributor to notable projects like HashiCorp Vault and Doorkeeper, he has improved security-sensitive flows and CI automation—work that reflects both backend engineering chops and operator sensibilities. Ian’s background in OpenStack, Ceph, and networking combined with hands-on automation (Python, Go, Ansible) makes him effective at embedding with developer teams to raise production reliability. Colocated in Aurora, Colorado, he pairs systems-level thinking with code-first solutions to reduce toil and improve observability across complex stacks.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems, Information Systems at Kansas State University
English
Stackoverflow
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102kreached
3answers
2questions
Github Skills (32)
authorizations10
back-end-development10
testing10
authentication10
user-authentication10
bash10
rails10
travis-ci10
secrets10
cicd10
go10
authorization10
vault10
doorkeeper10
devops10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hvac/hvac
May 2015 - Sep 2016
:lock: Python 3.X client for HashiCorp Vault
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:20 releases, 99 commits, 54 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily focused on setting up and improving the CI/CD pipeline for the project. Their commits included installing and configuring Vault within Travis CI, fixing build issues, and adding missing installation steps. The changes made to the `start-vault-dev.sh` script suggest a focus on automating Vault server setup within the CI environment.
apihashicorp-vaultpythonlockvault
doorkeeper-gem/doorkeeper
Oct 2013 - Nov 2013
Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider for Ruby on Rails / Grape.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Doorkeeper OAuth 2 provider, focusing on improving the application's behavior. They updated the application generation to check for existing client identifiers and secrets, preventing unnecessary regeneration. They also made the client optional for the password grant type and fixed issues with client credentials in the resource owner password grant flow and token refresh, thereby improving its functionality. The user's work also included ensuring proper security through changes in Rails 4 and integrating specific functionalities to refresh tokens with optional client credentials and scope reduction.
omniauthoauth2-serveridentitydoorkeeperruby
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