Ian Mckay
Developer & Designer at Braindrizzle Studio
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Mckay is a multidisciplinary developer and designer with 11 years of experience who founded Braindrizzle Studio to build everything from algorithmic trading systems and Amazon ads automation to research tools and indie games. With a PhD in philosophy and a background in physics/astrophysics, he brings rigorous analytical thinking to software projects implemented in Python, Rust, Go, and C#, and a taste for practical ML/LLM work alongside traditional algorithms. He pairs hands-on engineering (Neovim user) with creative design and entrepreneurship, tackling diverse technical problems solo while iterating rapidly. Comfortable in tech, consulting, or leadership roles, he’s driven by change and learning, often exploring unconventional intersections between research, product, and monetized tooling.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Philosophy at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics & Astrophysics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics & Astrophysics at University of Toronto
English, French
Github Skills (1)
swift8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
braindrizzlestudio/BDAstroCalc
Mar 2015 - Oct 2019
BDAstroCalc is a Swift struct for low-precision calculations related to Earth's sun and moon.
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 4 years 7 months
swift
braindrizzlestudio/BDGradientNode
Mar 2015 - Jun 2016
BDGradientNode is a subclass of SKSpriteNode for adding gradients to textures. This is normally a surprisingly convoluted process! (More on that in the Background section below.) With BDGradientNode you can easily add linear, radial, and sweep gradients--blended or not--to any texture.
Contributions:54 commits, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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