Ian Wessen
Senior Software Engineer at Carta
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolIan Wessen is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building front-end driven web products at startups and scale-ups, currently shipping features at Carta. He pivoted from a physics background into web engineering, bringing a quantitative mindset honed through research at Caltech, JPL, and UCSB to product and UI problems. Ian has driven frontend work across fintech and design platforms (HoneyBook, SketchDeck) and is comfortable bridging research-grade data analysis with production engineering. He favors pragmatic, testable solutions and has a history of building tooling and custom lab systems early in his career, reflecting hands-on hardware and instrumentation skills most engineers don’t list. Based in the Bay Area, he combines deep debugging instincts with a product-focused approach to deliver polished, user-facing experiences.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Santa Barbara
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
11reputation
599reached
2answers
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Github Skills (16)
go-server10
react9
visx9
visualization9
svg9
data-visualization8
html6
css6
javascript6
jquery6
html-table6
closures6
frontend5
golang5
state-machine2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tengen-io/web-client
Jun 2017 - Feb 2019
tengen.io — Frontend open source Go server
Contributions:40 commits, 15 PRs, 118 pushes in 1 year 8 months
golanggo-serverfrontendgo-source
ianwessen/ianwessen.com
Dec 2016 - Jan 2021
My personal website
Contributions:8 PRs, 112 pushes, 17 branches in 4 years 1 month
reactnextjs
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