Ian Cole
Founding Engineer at SpecMade
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Cole is a founding engineer and full-stack developer with 12 years of experience building and maintaining mission-critical web applications across Ruby on Rails and modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Ember). He has led feature development and tech initiatives—from shipping annotation workflows in SOXHUB to architecting onboarding and payment microservices—often acting as the pragmatic technical lead between product, design, and data teams. Ian has a history of rescuing and refactoring legacy systems, instituting CI/CD and testing practices, and integrating complex third-party services (Truework, Braintree, Avalara). Based in Seattle with a BS in Computer Science from Colorado State, he combines startup grit with enterprise-grade reliability and a knack for turning research or data-science models into production recommender pipelines.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Colorado State University
Github Skills (84)
facebook-api10
facebook-ads10
data-loading10
facebook-marketing-api10
ember10
javascript10
cucumber-js10
reactive10
facebook-graph-api10
reactive-programming10
ember-data10
typescript10
serverless-framework10
fetch10
rxjs10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
icole/book-examples
Jun 2015 - Jul 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 2 months
icole/.dotfiles
Feb 2022 - Jun 2026
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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