Ian J MacIntosh.com

Long-Distance Overlander

Jun 2019 – Mar 2024

• Crossed North, Central, and South America by motorcycle (28,126 miles, 15 countries)
• Learned strong command of Brazilian Portuguese and practical competence with Latin American Spanish
• Provided software engineering services as a remote worker while stuck in Guatemala and Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic

UI Developer, Product

Aug 2021 – May 2023

• Reported to Director of Product, leading 2 teams (18 engineers, US- and India-based) responsible for the company’s flagship data governance product (Vue.js, .NET, MS SQL Server) used and trusted by Fortune 500 companies
• Reduced defect rate by 50% by raising coding standards, leading workshops on modern engineering tools and practices like #NoEstimates, and adding automated testing to CI/CD pipelines
• Worked with leadership to prepare for and present during review from Edison Partners and Forgepoint Capital, earning a $31 million round of funding
• Designed and conducted formal user research to inform discussions while planning and building new features with management, engineers, and designers

Operations Consultant

Feb 2021 – Aug 2021

• Scaled up an engineering team fast by establishing a partnership with one of Boston’s best coding boot camps, building an efficient funnel to hire their top talent

Software Architect, Marketing

Apr 2018 – May 2019

• Architect for 35+ marketing sites, aligning with industry standards to improve stability and performance, boosting engagement +20% and trials +11%
• Stabilized 3 high-traffic websites running on archaic legacy infrastructure (Perl, NGINX), giving leadership time to focus on stack modernization instead of daily firefighting
• Led, coached, and mentored 5 teams of 3-10 engineers through challenges like from-scratch site rebuilds, rebrands, and platform migrations

Apr 2015 – Apr 2018

• Rebuilt the company’s product offerings into a singular all-in-one toolkit, improving front-end performance and scalability to support a growing user base of over 250,000 users while reducing tech debt

Oct 2009 – Apr 2015

• Rebuilt the marketing website to be "mobile-first," introducing responsive design to the company, presenting at internal conferences, and writing articles for company 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

Creator, Personal Project

Feb 2025

• Built a knockout user experience using TypeScript, React 18, React Router v7, and Workers delivered via Cloudflare infrastructure for blazing fast performance
• 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), Brazilian Portuguese (Intermediate), Latin American Spanish (Basic)

Professional Scrum Master II

July 2023

Professional Scrum Master I

June 2023

Bachelor of Arts, Sociology
Minor in Computer Information Technology