Ian Alford
Solutions Architect at Elixirr Digital, ex iOLAP
South Bend, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Alford is a solutions architect and technology leader with nine years of experience delivering cloud-first, virtualization, and cost-conscious infrastructure solutions across public and private sectors. He has led global engineering teams and vendor partnerships to cut operating costs and alert noise—achieving a 76% reduction in alerts and significant AWS spend savings—while formalizing incident response and operational dashboards. Ian blends hands-on systems administration and platform design (from Linux and VMware to cloud migrations) with MBA-trained business judgment, having driven multimillion-dollar budgets and procurement for county and education organizations. Comfortable as both an individual contributor and manager, he coaches engineers, standardizes intake processes, and translates stakeholder needs into measurable operational improvements. Based in South Bend, IN, he pairs academic teaching experience with practical production leadership, often surfacing efficiency gains that turn recurring expenses into one-time capital savings.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Speech Communication, Bachelor’s Degree Speech Communication at Indiana University South BendMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Business Administration and Management General, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Business Administration and Management General at Indiana University South Bend - Judd Leighton School of Business and Economics
Github Skills (61)
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
amazon-web-services10
cloud-development-kit10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
vscode10
infrastructure-as-code10
abaqus7
retrieval7
marks6
ansible6
cdr6
ingest5
interaction5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ndlib/coral-erm-docker
Oct 2018 - Jun 2021
Repository with code to run a Dockerized version of CORAL-ERM
Contributions:8 PRs, 11 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 8 months
dockerizedcoralerm
ialford/annex-ims
Jan 2021 - Nov 2025
IRIS: Integrated Retrieval and Inventory System
Contributions:26 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 11 months
inventoryintegratedirisretrievalinventory-system
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