Ian Whitney
Technical Architect at University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolIan Whitney is a Technical Architect with 13 years of experience designing and delivering web applications at the University of Minnesota, where he progressed from Ruby on Rails developer to manager and now leads architectural efforts. He combines hands-on development, team leadership, and application lifecycle stewardship, with a strong background in building student- and staff-facing systems. An active open-source contributor, Ian helps maintain Exercism's Rust track and has implemented and refactored numerous Rust exercise solutions and tests, demonstrating practical proficiency in a systems language beyond his Ruby roots. His early career blended technical writing and front-end CSS work with consulting, giving him a keen eye for clear documentation and user-focused interfaces. Based in Minneapolis, he brings steady, pragmatic engineering judgment and a habit of quietly improving developer tooling and code quality across projects.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at Macalester College
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Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
exercism/rust
Apr 2016 - Apr 2017
Exercism exercises in Rust.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:56 commits, 113 PRs, 57 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributed to the Exercism Rust track by implementing solutions for various exercises. Their work involved writing code for exercises like Allergies, Pascals Triangle, Grains, Bowling, Largest Series Product, Sum of Multiples, and Luhn, demonstrating proficiency in Rust. These contributions included implementing core functionalities, adding test suites, and refactoring existing code. The user also addressed bugs and updated test cases.
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IanWhitney/newsletter
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 14 PRs, 22 pushes in 5 months
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