Ian Whalen
VP Of Program Management at Tangerine Yoga
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolIan Whalen is a seasoned engineering program leader with 15 years of experience orchestrating large cross-functional organizations and delivering reliable developer-facing products. Currently VP of Program Management at Viam after senior leadership roles at MongoDB where he scaled program teams to support hundreds of engineers, he blends deep program execution with hands-on product empathy by still acting as a program manager for core teams. He has practical engineering chops—contributing Python scrapers to the openstates project and test automation for the Netrunner codebase—reflecting a comfort jumping into technical work when it matters. Based in New York, he pairs strategic operating experience with entrepreneurial ventures (owner of a yoga studio and angel investor) that reveal a focus on people, resilience, and real-world impact.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Political Science, BA, Political Science at Columbia University
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Github Skills (23)
e-government10
unit-testing10
python10
clojure-cli10
scraper10
clojure10
lxml10
card10
g10
logic10
webscraping9
data-extraction9
urllib9
mongodb6
sorting6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mtgred/netrunner
May 2016 - May 2016
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Ian contributed significantly to the testing of the Netrunner game logic. They wrote and modified tests for card interactions, including the "Independent Thinking" event, and also created tests to verify game mechanics related to Adam's starting directives and the "Push Your Luck" event. The commits demonstrate a focus on testing specific card abilities and game rules within the Netrunner card game.
openstates/openstates-scrapers
Feb 2011 - Mar 2011
source for Open States scrapers
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 13 days
Contributions summary:Ian contributed to the development of a scraper for Arkansas legislative data. Their work included implementing a LegislatorScraper to extract information like names, emails, photos, and district details. They also implemented a CommitteeScraper, handling both standard and subcommittees, for committee information extraction. The user primarily used Python and relevant libraries to interact with the legislature's website and extract data.
scraperpythongovernmentscrapers
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