Ian Walters
Principal Innovation Engineer
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Walters is a Principal Innovation Engineer with 16 years of hands-on software and cloud experience, currently leading cloud architecture and developer enablement at Fugro from Brisbane. He specializes in AWS-driven digitalization, building scalable, resilient platform components and coaching global teams to adopt cost-effective, elastic cloud practices. His background spans low-level C on-chip work through desktop and embedded Qt/C++ apps to modern cloud-native services, so he routinely bridges hardware-constrained thinking with distributed-system design. Ian combines frequent hands-on coding with strategic platform leadership, ensuring foundational components are production-ready and extendable. Notably, he has led platform delivery for data-centric groups and reimplemented complex applications (like Scrivener) across OS ecosystems, demonstrating both deep technical craft and product-focused engineering. He holds an honours degree in IT with compilers and AI emphasis, reflecting a strong theoretical grounding alongside broad practical delivery.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology with honours (2a), compilers and artificial intelligence, Bachelor of Information Technology with honours (2a), compilers and artificial intelligence at The University of Queensland
Github Skills (62)
aws10
development-kit9
minecraft-forge9
mermaid9
minecraft9
typescript9
cloud-infrastructure9
dynamodb9
ajv9
azure-ad-b2c9
mindmap8
msal8
sequence8
json-schema-validator8
cloud-development-kit8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
elhedran/SimpleRP
Apr 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:67 commits, 1 push in 4 months
elhedran/rxjs-dew
Jun 2017 - Jun 2019
Redux style done in typescript and rxjs
Contributions:45 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
reactrxjsreduxtypescriptredux-style
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