Ian Grabill
Head Of Engineering at HostedHooks
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Grabill is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 14 years building web-first products and teams from New York City. As Head of Engineering at BL3NDlabs and founder of HostedHooks and Submarine Rock, he combines hands-on technical execution with product-minded entrepreneurship focused on webhooks, SaaS, and e-commerce. He has a track record scaling engineering orgs—from software engineer to director roles at Ticket Evolution—and stepping in as a fractional CTO to guide product and M&A readiness. Comfortable across the stack, Ian blends practical systems thinking with low-code service design to help businesses integrate event-driven architectures. His background in biology and business gives him a data-aware, cross-disciplinary perspective that informs pragmatic product decisions. Colleagues describe him as a builder who moves fluidly between coding, architecture, and company strategy.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Biology and Business, BS, Biology and Business at University of New Brunswick
Github Skills (23)
community-management8
braintree7
lucky-framework7
devrel6
devtools5
rails4
stripe4
linkedin3
paddle3
ruby-on-rails3
sca3
http-api3
ruby3
engine3
omniauth2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
HostedHooks/hostedhooks-ruby
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
HostedHooks Ruby Gem
Contributions:21 commits, 7 PRs, 18 pushes in 4 months
ruby
HostedHooks/nextjs-sample-app
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 7 pushes in 13 days
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