Ian Littman
Software Developer at Freelance
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolIan Littman is a pragmatic software developer with 13+ years building web apps and APIs, currently focused on backend work in Go after a long career in PHP and JavaScript. He has shipped production systems for startups and enterprise clients—ranging from Favor and USPS contracts to device management at Fleet Device Management—and has held CTO responsibilities at a venture-stage company. A frequent open-source contributor, Ian has improved major PHP libraries like stripe-php and oauth2-server and contributed full-stack fixes to community projects such as Joind.in and OpenCFP. He combines hands-on coding with operations and product sensibilities, often taking on “what needs to be done” beyond strict backend duties. Based in Austin, he pairs an MS in Engineering Technology Management with a habit of quietly improving developer experience and robustness across codebases.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Ambleside School of FredericksburgMS, Engineering Technology Management, MS, Engineering Technology Management at Colorado School of Mines
English
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Github Skills (35)
unit-testing10
api-rest10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
css10
guzzle10
phpunit10
php10
api10
oauth2-server10
html10
rest-api10
twig10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
joindin/joindin-api
Feb 2019 - Aug 2022
The Joind.in API PHP Application
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 1 review, 50 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributed to the back-end of the Joind.in API, focusing on bug fixes, and API improvements. They addressed issues related to user permissions, ensuring that users could not delete themselves via the API. They updated the API's use of Guzzle for OAuth interactions, addressing deprecation warnings and improving integration. Further contributions included style fixes and improved exception handling for the API.
php-application
joindin/joindin-web2
Feb 2019 - Aug 2022
HTTP Frontend For the Joind.in API
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 1 review, 33 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily worked on front-end and back-end code changes related to the Joind.in website. Their contributions include removing outdated features such as the "Apps" header link, allowing for QR code links, updating the sponsor logo, and refining the talk sorting algorithm for the event schedule. They also addressed bugs and performed tasks related to the site's privacy policy and exception logging.
frontend
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