Ian Barker
Developer Advocate
Frisco, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarIan Barker is a Developer Advocate and lifelong software craftsman with over 10 years of professional experience and decades of hands-on development, writing, and management experience dating back to the 1980s. Based in Frisco, Texas, he evangelizes Embarcadero tools while continuing to author, edit, and ship software as an independent technical writer, editor-in-chief, and development manager. Fluent in legacy and modern stacks—Delphi veterans will likely recognize his work—he blends deep product knowledge with clear technical communication and public speaking. Ian’s long-running freelance career and continual content output show a rare combination of practitioner-level coding, editorial rigor, and developer-facing advocacy. He’s equally comfortable debugging old compilers as he is explaining complex concepts to diverse developer audiences.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (182)
firemonkey10
github10
windows10
python4delphi10
gcc10
command-palette10
cpp10
windows-gui10
github-desktop10
editor10
git10
pascal10
electron10
delphi10
python-ide10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
checkdigits/checkdigits
Jul 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 31 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Embarcadero/pa-radserver-ib-docker
Apr 2024 - Jan 2026
Docker script for RAD Studio Linux deployment including RAD Server engine and InterBase database
Contributions:10 reviews, 7 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 9 months
databasedockerinterbaselinuxradstudio
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