Ian J MacIntosh.com

Consultant

Aug 2021 – May 2023

• Led multiple engineering teams, hybrid and remote from US & India, responsible for the company’s flagship product to help Fortune 500 orgs visualize data governance issues at scale (Vue.js, C#, .NET, MS SQL Server)
• Served as Scrum Master, ensuring all Scrum events like Daily Scrum were positive, productive, and kept within the timebox
• Delivered technical leadership by providing guidance in code reviews, coaching, regular code contributions, and constant focus on unlocking developer potential
• Reduced defect rate dramatically by adding testing automation to CI/CD pipelines and training engineers to run and write effective tests
• Created a “bite-by-bite” plan to address tech debt, tackling all JavaScript code complexity problems within one quarter while delivering feature work as normal
• Provided 1:1 consultations with senior leadership to share opportunities to meet customer needs with modern technologies and Agile practices like #NoEstimates, shift-left testing, and human-centered design
• Guided new feature development with product managers and designers, driven by data from UX research with real users and explaining trade-offs of engineering choices

Consultant

Feb 2021 – Aug 2021

• Recruited and on-boarded top engineering talent by establishing a partnership with Boston’s top coding boot camp and building a transparent frustration-free hiring funnel

Software Architect

Apr 2018 – May 2019

• Architect for all major sites in a $3 billion portfolio of brands like Constant Contact, Bluehost, Domain.com, HostGator, and many others
• Led 5 different teams of 3-10 engineers of varying experience levels working with different technology stacks, including HTML, CSS (LESS & Sass), JavaScript (AngularJS), Java (Spring), and Perl (Mason)
• Nurtured growth of 26 engineers by providing mentorship, discussing goals regularly in 1:1’s, and building a professional development program
• Sourced, interviewed, and on-boarded top-notch engineers to scale up development capacity during a growth period and reorganized Scrum teams to enable each to independently deliver valuable product increments
• Provided regular advising for upper management, including highlighting the benefits of migrating to a React static site generator (Gatsby), later yielding significantly improved page speed and conversion rates
• Served as a player-coach, routinely switching from senior individual contributor to leading technical strategy conversations with stakeholders

Apr 2015 – Apr 2018

• Provided technical guidance and coordination with teams across the company’s entire engineering organization (200+ engineers)
• Directly supported and coached 15 engineers using HTML5, CSS (LESS, Sass, Autoprefixer), JavaScript (AngularJS, Knockout, jQuery, Grunt), and Java (Maven, Spring Boot, Java Server Pages)
• Implemented team-wide standards for coding style and editor configuration (Prettier, ESLint, EditorConfig) showing each engineer how to write compliant code using their favorite tools

Oct 2009 – Apr 2015

• Led front-end development using HTML5, CSS (LESS, Autoprefixer), JavaScript (jQuery, Grunt) for the company’s marketing website, providing concise answers and updates to project managers and product owners
• Rebuilt the marketing website to be "mobile-first," introducing responsive design to the company while rapidly prototyping with a team of 3 designers
• Shared knowledge with other engineers at weekly demonstrations, “Lunch and Learn” sessions, internal conferences, and by writing articles for the company’s tech blog

Senior UX Dev Contractor

Jun 2008 – Oct 2009

• Wrote front-end code to update Monster’s Hiring product from a traditional synchronous web application to use AJAX for a faster and more interactive experience
• Integrated components from a third-party library (Telerik) with existing API’s, delivering robust and stable drag-and-drop functionality on a short timeline
• Collaborated as part of a round-the-clock development team with offices in the Czech Republic and Malaysia

Senior Web Developer

May 2007 – Oct 2009

• Built and delivered projects of all sizes for clients big and small, including CBS, Liberty Mutual, and ESPN
• Implemented mockup designs from outside our agency, delivering in a short timeframe with minimal back-and-forth

Professional Scrum Master II

July 2023

Professional Scrum Master I

June 2023

Creator, Personal Project

June 2023

• Built and shipped a personal project: GasCo.st with TypeScript, React 18, React Router v7, and Cloudflare Workers, delivered via Cloudflare Pages low-latency high-reliability CDN and cloud infrastructure
• Automated retrieval of exchange rate data from third-party API using a custom Node.js CLI tool scheduled to run nightly with GitHub Actions
• Ensured stability with CI/CD automation for static code analysis and unit, integration, and end-to-end tests

• Code: React, TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), React Router, Vite, Motion Framer, CSS, HTML, Node.js
• Testing: Vitest, Jest, Playwright, Cypress, Testing Library, MSW, Coveralls, Lighthouse, Core Web Vitals, A/B testing
• Platforms: GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket, CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GenAI (Codeium & GitHub Copilot), Git, VS Code, Dev Containers, Internationalization/i18n, Accessibility/a11y (WCAG 2.1)
• Languages: US English (Native), Portuguese (Conversational), Spanish (Basic)

Bachelor of Arts, Sociology
Minor in Computer Information Technology