Ivan Novak is a Principal Engineer in Austin with 16+ years of hands-on experience delivering scalable web platforms and leading cross-functional teams. He has led major architectural rewrites and infrastructure overhauls—most notably redesigning a global commerce and billing API and implementing monitoring and analytics that materially reduced incidents and costs. Comfortable from product strategy to low-level optimization, he drove an 80% reduction in infrastructure costs while enabling full-lifecycle agile teams. Earlier roles include scaling a freelance agency into a 20-person firm and directing IT operations that automated 92% of billing workflows and doubled revenue. He pairs economics-trained business sense with deep technical pragmatism, often taking the lead on implementation details rather than just design.
Contributions:10 PRs, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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