Summary
Ian McBurnie is a Distinguished MTS Software Engineer and Accessibility Specialist based in California with over two decades of web, mobile and software engineering experience and a 12-year tenure at enterprise tech companies. He leads accessibility strategy and front-end architecture at eBay, maintaining the company’s UI component library, CSS framework, and open accessibility resources like eBay MIND Patterns and MakeupJS. Previously he shaped accessible experiences for Windows 8 launch apps at Microsoft and built rich, scalable front-end systems across Yahoo!’s search, maps and media products. Ian blends deep HTML/CSS/JavaScript craft with pragmatic leadership—running audits, training teams, and authoring reusable patterns that bridge UX and engineering. He brings a rare combination of hands-on component maintenance and high-level advocacy that turns WCAG requirements into developer-friendly tools and libraries. Trained in computer science in Europe and the UK, he quietly favors creating modular, documented solutions that scale across large product ecosystems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at University of Hertfordshire
Diplom-Informatiker, Diplom-Informatiker at Technische Fachhochschule Berlin
English, German