Summary
Ian Wotkun is a Senior Software Engineer based in Chicago with over a decade of professional experience and a 20-year background in web development, specializing in front-end engineering. He leads teams modernizing legacy Backbone apps into React, and has full-stack fluency with Python/Django, Node, Ruby on Rails, and MongoDB across healthcare, trading, and marketplace domains. Ian focuses on standards-based, responsive design using HTML5, CSS3, SASS, and modern JS frameworks (React, Next.js, Backbone, Lit), and is experienced in AWS deployments, GraphQL, and test-driven workflows. He has repeatedly bridged product, design, and QA to define requirements and shipping strategies, and prefers fully remote roles. An under-the-radar strength is his history of architecting custom frameworks for high‑traffic trading platforms, showing comfort with both greenfield architecture and incremental legacy modernization.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Graphics, BS Computer Graphics at Purdue University