Ian Zabel
Engineering Manager at Flex
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarIan Zabel is an engineering manager with 16 years of experience leading product-focused teams and shipping iterative web applications using Ruby on Rails and JavaScript. He’s managed engineering teams at companies from Shopify and Zillow to ezCater and now Flex, pairing hands-on development with people leadership and a track record of accelerating platform productivity. Ian blends consulting roots at Pivotal and thoughtbot with product delivery—helping launch features like StreetEasy Experts and core Rails infrastructure improvements. He also contributes to open-source tooling and CI automation (e.g., TeamCity REST API integration in a visible-chart CI aggregator), reflecting a pragmatic automation mindset. Based in New York, he favors measurable impact: improving developer workflows and shipping valuable, maintainable products.
16 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (12)
rspec10
ruby-rails10
rest-api10
rails10
teamcity10
ruby10
nokogiri9
timeout6
spree6
dns6
ruby-on-rails6
git4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vmware-archive/projectmonitor
Nov 2010 - Dec 2010
Big Visible Chart CI aggregator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:12 commits in 29 days
Contributions summary:Ian contributed to the project by implementing a new feature for TeamCity REST API integration, including associated model and testing code. They added a new project type, supporting the use of TeamCity's REST API for monitoring. The user also addressed build process by adding a file from `rake rails:update`, and included changes to other models and configuration. Furthermore, they removed extraneous code and addressed basic authentication issues with the REST API.
chartaggregatorvisible
iwz/isthebryantparklawnopen
Jun 2014 - Jun 2021
Contributions:60 commits, 7 PRs, 44 pushes in 7 years
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