Ian Ynda-hummel
Lead Developer at PreVeil
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Ynda-hummel is a Lead Developer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts with 16 years of experience building and leading mobile and backend engineering efforts. He has driven product and engineering teams from hands-on implementation to architecture while leading PreVeil since 2016 and previously directing engineering and mobile at CO Everywhere. Ian’s strengths include macOS and iOS systems engineering—evidenced by notable open-source contributions to CocoaPods (refactoring core CLI and repo management) and Amethyst (a tiling window manager)—showing a comfort with both tooling and low-level UI/accessibility work. He combines deep familiarity with CoreData, networking, and long-lived codebase migrations with an ability to modernize legacy projects and add robust test coverage. Known for pragmatic leadership, he pairs shipping-facing product instincts with meticulous internal reorganizations that reduce technical debt. An MIT-trained computer scientist, Ian brings both platform-level engineering chops and a track record of improving developer experience in widely used projects.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (21)
dependency-manager10
objective-c10
configuration-management10
package-manager-tool10
macos10
package-manager10
cocoapods10
testing9
appkit9
command-line-interface9
ruby9
command-line9
cli9
swift9
json8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ianyh/Amethyst
May 2013 - Jan 2023
Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:92 releases, 90 reviews, 1078 commits in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ian implemented several features related to a status bar app, including setting up the app and creating a menu with functionality. They also added object wrappers for accessibility elements and created a window manager object to track windows and applications. Furthermore, they added a feature for handling custom layouts based on files.
tiling-window-managerwindowxmonadtilingmac
CocoaPods/CocoaPods
Jun 2013 - Aug 2013
The Cocoa Dependency Manager.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributed to the CocoaPods project by refactoring and restructuring the codebase. They focused on migrating legacy code and directory structures, particularly related to managing repos and configuration. The user demonstrated expertise in modifying core functionalities such as setup, init, and config, and wrote tests to ensure proper operation. Their work involved significant changes to the project's internal file organization and command-line interface.
cocoapodsobjective-cpackage-managermacdependency-manager
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