Ian Young
Principal Solutions Architect at Alamy
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Young is a Principal Solutions Architect with over two decades of experience designing scalable, event-driven systems for image-intensive businesses, currently leading architecture at Alamy within the PA Media Group. He specializes in delivering large-scale image and metadata pipelines—now architecting training-data workflows for hundreds of millions of images—and previously led the rework of Alamy’s API and notification platform using microservices and AWS serverless. An active industry contributor, Ian chairs the IPTC NinJS working group, collaborating with major news organizations to evolve standards that bridge editorial and broadcast workflows. He blends hands-on engineering in TypeScript, Node/NestJS, Terraform and AWS with strong architectural practice (C4, solution docs, best practices) and a pragmatic focus on extracting business insights from data. Not obviously visible in summaries, he has repeatedly grown and sustained massive image archives from millions to hundreds of millions of assets across his career, pairing long-term operational ownership with forward-looking standards work.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science (AI specialisation), Bachelor's degree Computer Science (AI specialisation) at Nottingham Trent UniversityKarlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Github Skills (15)
iptc8
vagrant7
nodejs7
docker6
javascript6
ansible6
ruby6
virtualization5
typescript5
automation5
xml3
yeoman-generator2
yeoman2
json2
microservices1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pa-media-group/schemata
Mar 2020 - Nov 2020
XML and JSON schemata for standard PA delivery platforms
Contributions:4 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 7 months
schemataxmlplatformsjson
iyoung/images-rekognition
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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