Ian Hollander
Staff Software Engineer at Foothold Technology
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolIan Hollander is a Staff Software Engineer based in the New York City area who transitioned from a decade-plus career programming major film festivals into building full‑stack web applications. With eight years of professional engineering experience and three years focused on product and user-facing work at a top-tier film festival, he blends strong front-end React skills, test-driven development, and Rails backend experience to deliver maintainable, well-tested systems. At Foothold Technology he progressed from engineer to staff, leading feature development, refactors, and test-suite improvements that emphasize reliability and developer ergonomics. A former film programmer who spotted tech opportunities in festivals, he pairs creative problem‑solving with a persistent curiosity and a knack for turning legacy workflows into modern, production-ready software.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Film Studies, Bachelor's degree Film Studies at Wesleyan University
Github Skills (40)
javascript10
back-end-development10
session-management10
testing10
jes10
component-development10
css10
rspec10
rails10
user-interface10
redux10
ruby10
mochajs10
testing-library10
sinatra10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ihollander/js-mini-challenge-fetch
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:93 reviews, 30 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 month
ihollander/module-one-final-project-guidelines-nyc-web-100818
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:34 commits, 15 pushes, 10 branches in 3 days
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