IanΒ Winter
Director at Jetpack Interactive
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolIan Winter is a seasoned technology executive and director with over 20 years leading game development and tech companies and nine years of hands-on software experience in Java and Go. As founder and long-time leader of Jetpack Interactive he has scaled boutique studios to deliver AAA work for publishers like EA, Sony, Bandai Namco and Amazon while growing teams to 35+ engineers. He combines operational rigor (CPA credential and corporate banking background) with product-focused engineering leadership, repeatedly building HR, financial and delivery infrastructure to enable rapid growth. Ian has also steered operations for fast-growing iGaming and esports platforms and sits on boards spanning HR outsourcing to craft brewing, showing a taste for diverse industries beyond games. A part-time business faculty member, he translates real-world strategy and finance lessons into classroom instruction, reflecting a practical commitment to talent development. Based in Vancouver, he blends strategic CFO-level oversight with developer roots in Java and Go, enabling both high-level partnerships and technical delivery.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
St. John's-Ravenscourt SchoolEcole Collonge-BelleriveCPA CMA, CPA CMA at Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada)BA (Hons) Economics, BA (Hons) Economics at Queen's UniversityInternational Management, International Management at HEC ParisMBA Finance, MBA Finance at The University of British Columbia
French
Github Skills (7)
java6
http-server5
nio3
netty2
asynchronous1
application-framework1
event-driven1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
iwinter997/netty-httpserver
Apr 2019 - Dec 2019
π‘simple java netty based httpserver.
Contributions:2 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
httpserverjdk8nionettynetty4
LuoGnag/iwinter.github.io
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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