Ian Wehrman
Product Manager, Content at Snap Inc.
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolIan Wehrman is a product leader and research-trained engineer with 14 years of experience building UX-driven consumer products and creative tools, currently shaping Spotlight and creator growth at Snap in Los Angeles. He blends deep research engineering roots—multiple roles at Adobe including contributions to the adobe-photoshop generator-core Node.js library—with product ownership, enabling pragmatic technical decisions informed by user studies. Ian has led research engineering teams and transitioned to product management, uniquely bridging lab-grade experimentation and scalable production features for media partners and creators. His background includes internships at Microsoft and a strong academic foundation through a PhD in computer science, which shows up in his systematic approach to UX problems and code-level contributions to complex multimedia tooling.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Webster UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis
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Github Skills (4)
javascript10
nodejs10
websocket6
sem6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
adobe-photoshop/generator-core
Feb 2014 - Mar 2016
Core Node.js library for Adobe Photoshop CC's Generator extensibility layer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributed to the core Node.js library for Adobe Photoshop CC's Generator extensibility layer. Their work included fixing typos, refactoring code for clarity, and adding functionality related to retrieving document information and SVG generation. They also improved code maintainability by adding validation for Photoshop version compatibility and simplifying websocket server control routines. Key changes involved interactions with Photoshop's internal functions and data structures.
node-coreadobejs-libraryextendscriptnode-js
iwehrman/google-search-result-hotkeys
Apr 2017 - Sep 2022
Google Search Result Hotkeys Chrome Extension
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 5 years 5 months
google-searchchromehotkeyssearchchrome-extension
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