Ian Whitlock
Software Engineer at Cloudflare
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolIan Whitlock is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with 13 years building production-grade cloud and network infrastructure across companies like Cloudflare, VMware, Mattermost, and Juniper. He specializes in systems engineering for large-scale control planes and cloud platforms, with hands-on experience shipping BYOIP APIs, legacy data migrations, and Kubernetes-based multi-tenant services. Comfortable across Go, Python, and operational tooling, he has moved between feature development and critical operational responsibilities that keep large fleets healthy and scalable. Now at ngrok, he continues to focus on resilient networked systems while bringing deep institutional experience from Cloudflare’s core IP management work. Off the beaten path, his GitHub houses an Emacs configuration that reflects a long-standing taste for readable, prose-centric tooling and thoughtful developer ergonomics.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at North Carolina School of Science and MathematicsIncomplete, Computer Science, Incomplete, Computer Science at Purdue UniversityRecurse Center
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Github Skills (175)
vsphere10
web-application10
python10
vim10
chat10
homeserver10
matrix-synapse10
collaboration10
javascript10
matrix10
launchpad10
data-protection10
mattermost10
audio10
emacs10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
gigawhitlocks/mattermost-server
Aug 2019 - Aug 2021
Open source Slack-alternative in Golang and React - Mattermost
Contributions:77 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years
golangreactslackmattermostslack-alternative
gigawhitlocks/mattermost-cloud
Oct 2019 - Aug 2021
Tools and services for running Mattermost Private Cloud :cloud:
Contributions:221 pushes, 74 branches in 1 year 9 months
golangnetwork-automationinfrastructureinfrastructure-managementcloudfoundry
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