Ian Wessman
Head Of Design at Freelancer
New York, New York, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolIan Wessman is an award-winning technologist and Head of Design with 14 years of experience bridging engineering and creative teams to deliver interaction-driven digital products. He has led design and technical strategy at agencies and brands, from Ogilvy and Saatchi to his current role at AVLX, consistently translating ambitious creative visions into scalable front-end and middle-layer architectures. A hands-on interaction designer and technical architect, Ian has a track record of pioneering interactive ad formats, large-scale site redesigns (including The New York Times), and immersive consumer experiences for entertainment and automotive accounts. He thrives in hybrid roles—managing teams and projects while rolling up his sleeves to craft standards-compliant, extensible implementations. Based in New York, he combines a Computer Science background from RPI with deep agency experience to solve both user and business problems. Less obvious: he’s equally fluent in storytelling and performance optimization, enabling creative concepts to become measurable, production-ready systems.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Art English, Computer Science Art English at University at AlbanyComputer Science, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Stackoverflow
51reputation
3kreached
3answers
0questions
Github Skills (11)
safari6
css6
xml6
safari-extension6
xpath6
media-queries6
webkit6
java5
javascript5
cpp4
micro3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
wessman/defer.js
Jan 2012 - Apr 2013
Contributions:40 commits in 1 year 2 months
microjs/microjs.com
Jul 2012 - Jul 2012
Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries for Fun and Profit!
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
cppjavascriptframeworkfor-funprofit
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.