Ian Wold
Principal Software Architect at Dalex Livestock Solutions
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolIan Wold is a Principal Software Architect based in Minneapolis with 12 years of professional experience designing and leading .NET-based systems across desktop, web, and mobile platforms. He combines hands-on engineering with team leadership, having led a five-person development team and architected a greenfield product using ASP.NET, KnockoutJS, Xamarin, PostgreSQL and Azure with automated DevOps pipelines. At Dalex he now sets company-wide architectural standards, audits legacy codebases, and works closely with engineers and stakeholders to improve maintainability and cross-repository consistency. A self-directed learner for 15+ years, he pairs formal CS training and philosophy thinking with practical experience migrating .NET Framework to .NET Core and building public OAuth APIs. He contributes to open-source tooling—adding comment-parsing enhancements to the C# Sprache parser library—showing a taste for small, focused improvements that make developer tooling friendlier. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who enjoys mentoring engineers and finding creative, long-term solutions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Decorah High SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at University of Iowa
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (14)
parser10
csharp10
parsing10
parse10
dotnet-core10
unit-testing7
configuration-manager6
connection-string6
css6
xaml6
appconfig6
event-handling6
netstandard6
canvas6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sprache/Sprache
Sep 2014 - Oct 2018
A tiny, friendly, C# parser construction library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 13 comments in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ian primarily focused on extending the functionality of the Sprache library by introducing a `CommentParser` class and its associated interface, `IComment`. This involved creating parsers for single-line and multi-line comments and integrating the new `CommentParser` into existing components, like the `AssemblerTests.cs` and the `XmlExample`. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to the project structure, including modifying the `Sprache.csproj` file and making the newline character mandatory in the constructors.
parsingtinycsharpparser
IanWold/OutrageEngine
Feb 2016 - Oct 2016
Game engine for ASCII console games
Contributions:32 commits, 5 pushes in 8 months
ascii-gameconsolegame-engineoutrage-enginewindows
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